The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which is Britain’s healthcare cost-effectiveness agency, has determined that abiraterone (Zytiga) was not worth giving to men with castrate resistant metastatic prostate cancer who have yet to had chemotherapy. Unlike the FDA in the United States which rules only on a drug’s efficacy, NICE decides if [...]
One of the more recent conversations surrounding prostate cancer treatment that we have been hearing involves the use of the anti-cholesterol drugs or statins. The conversation, whether or not statins might be a good treatment option for men with both localized disease and as an alternative to hormone treatment (ADT) for men with advanced prostate [...]
It has always been assumed that Ketoconazole, when used for the treatment of men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), would not be as potent as abiraterone (Zytiga), but there has never been any head to head comparison to demonstrate this assumption! Ketoconazole is a less potent inhibitor of the CYP-17 enzyme, the mode [...]
There is some really good news for those of us who live in areas where The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends drug approvals. NICE has issued a final draft guidance recommending that men with hormone-relapsed prostate cancer (castrate resistant) that has metastasized and has been treated with docetaxel (chemotherapy) should be [...]
There are occasional conversations about the possibility of looking at a man’s fingers and predicting the aggressiveness of their prostate cancer. Is this real science or is this voodoo science? This might actually be real science! During gestation a male fetus’s development of the prostate gland is dependent on a functional androgen receptor and the [...]