Why A Common Treatment For Prostate Cancer Ultimately Fails

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This new study helps explain a phenomenon that has bedeviled patients

for decades. Hormone therapy, a common treatment for men with advanced

prostate cancer, generally keeps the cancer at bay for a year or two.

But then, for reasons scientists have never understood, the treatment

fails in patients whose disease has spread – the cancer begins to grow

again, at a time when patients have few treatment options left.Click on the below link for the full story:<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821110121.htm>