It is very common, men with advanced prostate cancer find that they are subject to confusion and memory loss; they experience a general dumbing down of their brain facilities. The most common culprits causing this are hormone therapy (ADT) and chemotherapy treatments. At this time we don’t have any great magic bullets to treat this [...]
One of the more common side effects of chemotherapy is anemia, or the lack of hemoglobin (red blood cells). Severe anemia is dangerous and will require the suspension of the use of chemotherapy as well as immediate treatment. In light of this the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required that Amgen Inc. developed [...]
According to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research, taxne-based chemotherapy drugs are not well understood as they may be more powerful than many have believed. Generally, it is believed that taxane chemotherapy (paclitaxel, docetaxel and cabazitaxel) just stop a cancer cell from dividing -- but [...]
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center along with Danish researchers have announced the development of a novel, investigational anticancer drug (G202) that has been described as a molecular grenade that targets cancer cells. The drug is able to travel undetected by normal cells through the bloodstream until it is activated by a specific cancer proteins, then [...]
In a study presented at ASCO, researchers found that the drug duloxetine (Cymbalta) can help to treat peripheral neuropathy, a painful side effect of chemotherapy using taxanes. Taxotere, the chemotherapy drug used to treat castrate resistant, advanced prostate cancer is a taxane. Peripheral neuropathy occurs when nerves in the body's peripheral nervous system (outside the [...]