[Hopespringpcsg] FW: Newer drugs are improving prostate cancer survival rates

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all:
See below for a article from Harvard Medical school wrt newer drugs for PCa.
Also below is info about the publication about Prostate Diseases; however, it costs $59 US.
Take care,
Glen

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Newer drugs are improving prostate cancer survival rates
POSTED JANUARY 31, 2018, 10:30 AM
Charlie Schmidt Editor, Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases

Treatments for advanced prostate cancer that’s metastasizing, or spreading in the body, are getting better, and men with the disease are living longer because of them, new research has found. For years, the only available treatments for these aggressive tumors were androgen-deprivation therapies (ADT) that block testosterone, the male sex hormone that makes prostate cancer cells grow faster. Giving ADT slows cancer progression, but tumors typically develop resistance against it within three years and start growing again.
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