Novel Chemo Drug Helps Treat Prostate Cancer

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Novel

Chemo Drug Helps Treat Prostate Cancer

ScienceDaily (May 30, 2008)

— Men with a certain type of prostate cancer have been shown to respond

to a new chemotherapy drug, Sagopilone, plus prednisone in an international

trial led by Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute

researchers.

The

research involved men with androgen-independent prostate cancer that has

metastasized, meaning their cancer has spread beyond the prostate and is not

longer responding to hormonal therapies. This is the most advanced form of

prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in men in

the United States,

where it is responsible for more male deaths than any other cancer, except lung

cancer.

" We

are showing solid activity that this drug shows promise, " said Tomasz

Beer, M.D., principal investigator. He is the Grover C. Bagby Endowed Chair for

Cancer Research, director of the Prostate Cancer Research Program at the OHSU

Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine (hematology/medical

oncology), OHSU School of Medicine.

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read the entire article click on the link.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080530172628.htm

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Kathy