The Least Likeliest Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer
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A new, promising treatment for advanced prostate cancer is being tested, and it hails from a very unlikely source: the liver of a human fetus.
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PROSTATE HEALTH
Beating Prostate Cancer with Immunotherapy
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When you study about prostate cancer treatment you read an awful lotabout androgen deprivation therapy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy – because they work. You hear less about immunotherapy for prostate cancer because, despite its effectiveness against many cancers and other diseases, prostate cancer has been notoriously resistant to it.
Read MoreCombining short-term androgen deprivation with radiation provides better outcome
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A new study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago suggest that short-term androgen deprivation therapy (STADT) in combination with radiotherapy (RT) in men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer is associated with better outcomes compared with dose-escalated radiotherapy alone.
Read MoreHormone Therapy for Treating Prostate Cancer
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Hormone therapy, or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is used to suppress a man’s testosterone level in hopes of starving the prostate cancer tumor. But what are the risks?
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