Thinking out of the box, a new concept to fight cancer, including prostate cancer, has been developed. The strategy is simple, fight cancer with cancer! In a very small phase one trial researchers at the Rogosin Institute have taken encapsulated tumor cells from mice and made a bead from a seaweed-derived sugar called agarose. Then, [...]
Researchers at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and GE Healthcare have developed a new technology that appears to rapidly assess the presence and aggressiveness of prostate tumors in real time, by imaging the tumor’s metabolism. […]
Finally, some good news as Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced their intention to start a Phase III clinical trial of TAK-700 in the U.S. for men with advanced prostate cancer. TAK-700, which I have been writing about under the heading of “On the Horizon,” is [...]
OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OGXI) announced the publication of results from their randomized Phase 2 trial of custirsen for men with advanced prostate cancer in the September 20, 2010 Journal of Clinical Oncology. According to their announcement, the trial results showed a survival benefit with their investigational agent OGX-011/TV1011 (custirsen) in men with advanced prostate [...]
As of today there are many different potential drugs undergoing phase III evaluations for men with advanced prostate cancer, some of them seem to offer great hope and promise. Considering we just had Provenge finally approved, this is great news. […]
At Columbia University, New York City, Dr. Aaron Katz, in an online publication of Integrative Cancer Therapies reported positive effects on both androgen dependent (AD) and androgen independent (AI) prostate cancer of Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) on both human and mouse prostate cancer cell lines (in the petrie dish). Dr. Kata, the lead researcher, reported [...]
Bavarian Nordic (B/N) is in the process of testing what might be the next prostate cancer vaccine to become available. They have successfully completed a phase II trial of 125 men with metastatic prostate cancer. The good news, the survival advantage experienced by the trial’s subjects had a statistically significantly longer median overall survival of [...]
It was announced today that the phase I/II trial of MDV3100 demonstrated positive results. MDV3100 is a novel triple-acting oral androgen receptor antagonist, the common antagonist most of us are familiar with today is Casodex. These results were published in the online April 15 version of The Lancet. […]
