Less chemo shrinks prostate cancer tumors
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Researchers at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy say smaller, less toxic amounts of chemotherapy medicine given frequently slowed tumor growth in a study of mice with human prostate cancer. They have concluded chemotherapy given repeatedly in small portions - metronomic dosing - ...
New treatment for prostate cancer
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »A new treatment for prostate cancer has been pioneered by scientists at Queen's University Belfast. It is aimed at men with an advanced and aggressive form of prostate cancer which has spread to the bone and is the first of ...
Big hopes for patients when switching on chemo
Monday, August 8th, 2011 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »According to researchers from UM Sylvester Cancer Center in Miami, the problem with prostate cancer chemo therapy is that many patients do not respond in the first place, and the patients that do respond stop responding after certain duration of treatment Researchers ...
Scientists hail new prostate cancer drug
Monday, October 4th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Scientists yesterday hailed a new chemotherapy drug as the first ever treatment to prolong life for men with advanced prostate cancer. The drug, it's name is Cabazitaxel, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and could offer ...
Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have discovered a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is safe and might have the potential to decrease ...
Does concurrent statin therapy help men who have EBRT for localized disease?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A scientific team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, wanted to investigate the potential impact of statin therapy on biochemical progression-free survival and metastasis-free survival after high-dose radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer. To do this, researchers conducted a retrospective ...
New therapy turning chemo back on for prostate cancer patients
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »According to Dr. Rakesh Singal, medical oncologist at the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center, the problem with chemo is that many patients do not respond to chemotherapy in the first place, and the patients that do respond stop responding ...
Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Experts agree that in men with aggressive prostate cancer, standard therapies such as radiation or surgery often fail to eliminate the cancer completely at the site of treatment. When these cancers recur, they are often fatal Recently, researchers in the Oregon ...
New Proof that Chemotherapy Promotes Cancer
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »The same chemotherapy that cures a patient’s prostate cancer may increase that patient’s chances of developing cancer later in life in tissue adjacent to the original cancer, new research by the Buck Institute for Age Research indicates. Cells shut down and ...
What is the current status of second-line chemotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who show progression of disease after first-line chemotherapy with docetaxel have few proven treatment options. Mitoxantrone plus prednisone is frequently used in this setting. The retrospective analysis by Berthold et al. of mitoxantrone after ...