At the Society of Clinical Medicine’s 57th Annual Meeting there was a report of a clinical trial using a new molecular imaging agent could improve diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer. […]
A new phase 3, registration trial has been announced by OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of its investigational drug custirsen sodium (OGX-011/TV-1011). The trial, for men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is referred to as the Prostate Cancer SATURN Trial. This randomized, controlled, trial will include approximately 50 cancer centers and is planned to enroll [...]
What are you going to do if you have had radiation therapy as a primary prostate cancer therapy and the cancer has reoccurred? If the disease has remained in the prostate gland some men are able to go back and have surgery, but the condition the gland has been left in post radiation makes it [...]
The approval of Provenge has once again brought to the forefront the very important questions about the proper timing of treatments as well as the issue concerning how to combine therapies to maximize survival. We have, although there numbers are limited, different treatments that are used for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer, but we [...]
Johns Hopkins, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Duke University have announced data at the ASCO meeting in Chicago from a 200 man phase II clinical trial of a blood vessel-blocking drug called tasquinimod. This “anti-angiogenesis” drug constricts the blood supply to prostate tumors by blocking new blood vessel development. The study showed that tasquinimod slowed [...]