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Dendreon Has Three Posters At ASCO That Add New And Great News For Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

The American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) posted on Wednesday the abstracts from the Genitourinary Conference which is scheduled for February 2-4 in San Francisco, California. Dendreon, the creator of the immunotherapy Provenge for men with metastatic castrate resistant advanced prostate cancer has three very interesting and informative posters which will appear at the conference. [...]

By Malecare|2021-02-17T11:03:31-05:00February 3rd, 2012|Advanced Prostate Cancer, ASCO, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, Provenge, Research, Uncategorized, vaccines|0 Comments

Bavarian Nordic Initiates Pivotal Phase 3 Trial of PROSTVAC® Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy

Bavarian Nordic A/S (BAVA) announced on November 15, that its subsidiary, BN ImmunoTherapeutics has started the pivotal Phase 3 trial of PROSTVAC® for men with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The trial is being conducted under a Special Protocol Assessment agreement with the FDA. Notice this trial has the same criteria as [...]

By Malecare|2021-02-17T10:28:06-05:00January 17th, 2012|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, FDA, On The Horizon, Prostvac, Uncategorized, vaccines|0 Comments

A Look at the Status of Cancer Vaccines – Emerging Treatments

From very early on, researchers and doctors have dreamed of using the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. The big question has been why doesn’t the immune system attack the tumor cells that invade healthy tissue? The really good news is that finally science is catching up with this vision. Therapeutic cancer vaccines that [...]

By Malecare|2011-12-20T14:34:32-05:00December 20th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, ipilimumab, Prostvac, Provenge, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding APC, vaccines, Yervoy|1 Comment

A Provenge Like Treatment Demonstrates Extraordinary Results Treating Leukemia – A Phase I Trial Using the Technique In Post Chemo Prostate Cancer Treatment

The most exciting news today is about some research performed at the University of Pennsylvania where researchers took blood from the three leukemia patients and isolated the T cells, a type of immune cell in the blood. T cells recognize invading organisms and kill them, however they do not recognize cancer cells as invading cells, [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T11:34:16-05:00August 12th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy Failure, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, On The Horizon, Uncategorized, Understanding APC, vaccines|2 Comments

Some Great News For Our European Brothers In Their Fight Against Advanced Prostate Cancer

Things are looking up for our European readers. It must be frustrating for people outside of the United States to read this blog and learn about the many advances we now have in the US which are not available to them. The good news is that Sanofi has just launched Jevtana (cabazitaxel) in the UK [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:19-04:00July 6th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Cabazitaxel, Chemo Therapy, Drugs & Treatments, Politics of Cancer, Uncategorized, Understanding APC, United Kingdom - England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales, vaccines|0 Comments