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Experimental prostate cancer drugs tested in Belfast

Around 10,000 men in the UK die from prostate cancer each year. This is one of the reason Belfast City Hospital joins other leading research hospitals around the world in using the experimental drugs designed to help men whose cancer has spread to the bones.

Experts hope men with advanced prostate cancer could be treated by new drugs being tested in Belfast.

Specialists behind the trial said because the radiotherapy, known as an alpha-pharmaceutical, only works over very small distances the width of a few cells health tissues like bone marrow appear to remain relatively unharmed.