Using Circulating Tumor Cells To Evaluate Chemotherapy Efficacy Leading To Improved Clinical Decision Making

Today most doctors rely on their personal evaluation or objective response criteria (OR) of a man to know when docetaxel chemotherapy has stopped working. The earlier this determination can be accurately made the quicker an alternative treatment can e put into place. Personal evaluations without any validated tools are unreliable and never consistent among doctors. [...]

Detecting Prostate Cancer Cells in Blood Can Give An Early Warning of Treatment Failure and Shorten Clinical Trials

There is more evidence that the blood test used to count the number of cells circulating in the blood and shed from prostate tumors (circulating tumor cells or CTCs) can indicate whether a treatment is working or not working. A major new study showed that the number of these circulating tumor cells in the blood [...]

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