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Algeta, Completing A Successful Phase II Trial For Men With Bone Metastases Will Begin Enrolling US Survivors Into A Phase III Trial

Algeta ASA (OSE: ALGETA), has announced that it will begin to enroll US survivors into its Alsympca phase III trial evaluating Alpharadin (radium-223). Alpharadin is designed to be used as a treatment for bone metastases in prostate cancer survivors with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). The announcement of the trial follows a successful end-of-phase II meeting [...]

By Malecare|2021-02-17T10:45:20-05:00February 4th, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Alpharadin (radium-223), Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Metastases, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

A Clinical Trial : Ixabepilone, Mitoxantrone, and Prednisone in Treating Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer That Did Not Respond to Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy

I was recently reviewing current clinical trials and came across this one for men who have failed chemotherapy, what many of us view as the final treatment for advanced prostate cancer. It provides a potential opportunity to combine two different therapy agents (one old, mitoxantrone; one relatively new, ixabepilone). Both of these chemicals are known [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T10:11:12-05:00February 2nd, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, Chemo Therapy Failure, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Uncategorized|7 Comments

Advanced Prostate Cancer Vaccine Being Developed in Cuba

For those of us who believed that we are alone in the search for a prostate cancer vaccine for advanced prostate cancer, the good news is that we are not. The Vladimir Ilich Lenin hospital, located in Cuba, has announced that they will shortly begin the second phase of the clinical trial of a vaccine [...]

By Malecare|2009-01-27T11:40:46-05:00January 27th, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, Politics of Cancer, Uncategorized, vaccines|0 Comments

Gabapentin to Treat Hot Flashes

I suffered with significant hot flashes when I was on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). I experienced between seven to 15 flashes in a twenty-four hour period. Often the flashes were accompanied with breathing difficulties and fatigue. My quality of life was significantly negatively affected. The flashes were significant enough to require that I occasionally change [...]

By Malecare|2009-01-21T12:55:41-05:00January 21st, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Hormone Therapy, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

An NCI Clinical Trail After Chemotherapy Has Failed

What do advanced prostate cancer survivors do once we fail chemotherapy? At this time there are no FDA approved next steps other than to take some time off and pray that restarting chemotherapy will again help us. To put in another way, we wait to die. There is a huge need to find additional strategies [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T10:39:41-05:00January 8th, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, Chemo Therapy Failure, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Uncategorized|0 Comments