Better diagnoses and new treatments might be possible for prostate cancer with the blueprint that can uncover many of the mutations and genetic damage that makes prostate cancer happen.

The damaged will get reversed with earlier detection and new drugs that will be possible due to a detailed picture of the fundamental causes of the disease.

Patients can also have a cancer chart drawn for themselves that could help doctors in figuring out the course of treatment and personal care.

Dr Mike Berger, lead author at the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, said: "This is a transforming moment in understanding the underlying biology of prostate cancer. It offers the potential of new targets for treatment and earlier diagnosis of the more aggressive strains of the disease."

There are mutations to the DNA of cells that are healthy and during a person's lifetime these are acquired and these changes cause all cancers.

There are tumors and lumps that then get formed due to this damage and body's normal processes get disturbed and can also prove fatal if not checked properly.