New Markers To Make Better Treatment Decisions For Prostate Cancer

Making treatment decisions once you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer is difficult. Often, it is impossible to accurately and reliably be able to predict the eventual course of the cancer. Prostate cancer, besides being one of the slower growing cancers, is also one of the deadliest. So good, informed decisions are vital. The original [...]

How To Get A Blood Test For AR-V7 If You Have Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer

In the near future we should be seeing more non-invasive methods to evaluate if a man is responding to their drugs. One such example is the blood bio-marker available only at Johns Hopkins, the Androgen Receptor Variant 7 (AR-V7). Evaluating the presence of the antibody AR-V7 in the blood strongly indicates whether or not both [...]

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