What Is The Actual Survival Advantage for Men Who Take Provenge? It’s Longer Than We Thought!

Understanding and deciding on appropriate treatments for men with advanced prostate cancer can be confusing. All the treatments come with side effects and one never knows what the benefits might be for an individual. Even with good clinical trials, men with advanced prostate cancer still need to navigate a most unclear path. Provenge, ever since [...]

Zytiga in High Doses and Zytiga Combined with MDV3100 Increase the Length of Response Time In Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer

According to recent trials led by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) (UK) and The Royal Marsden (UK) combining Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) with the yet FDA unapproved investigational drug MDV3100 could increase the number of men, with advanced prostate cancer, who respond to treatment as well as the length of time they benefit. A new [...]

Xgeva (Denosumab) Rejected By the FDA for Use in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Who Do Not have Bone Mets

Xgeva (denosumab), which has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention fractures in men with advanced prostate cancer that has already migrated to the bone, has been rejected by the FDA to expand the use of the drug to delay the spread of tumors in men without metastases to [...]

Early Hormone Therapy Delays Disease Progression in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Despite the fact that we have had good research for well over 15 years that show that early hormone therapy increases over all survival, some doctors still insist on delaying the start of hormone therapy. A UK randomized trial done in 1997 demonstrated a slight impact of immediate versus deferred hormone suppression in advanced prostate [...]

The New Yorker Magazine Publishes A Great Article on Immunotherapy

For those who might be interested in the April 23, 2012 edition of The New Yorker Magazine, Jerome Groopman has written an excellent article on the history and current state of Immunotherapy. The article is entitled "The T-Cell Army" and it is on page 24. Not only does the article review the history (going all [...]

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