New way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer patients
February 26th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapyBiomedical scientists Monash University, Australia, have identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers.
For more than 60 years the main way to treat the most common cancer in Australian men has involved removing the hormones that fuel growth of the cancer cells. Although initially effective, this treatment inevitably fails because the cancerous cells remain in a patient after they have undergone hormone treatment. The scientific team, has discovered a new way to treat these potentially fatal diseased cells.
The findings have been published in the prestigious medical journal PNAS.