New way to treat castrate resistant cells in CaP patients

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For more than 60 years the main way to treat men with prostate cancer has involved removing the hormones that fuel growth of the cancer cells. Although initially effective this treatment inevitably fails and when the tumour growth resumes, the disease in incurable. Monash U's Prostate & Breast Cancer Research Program has discovered a way to treat these potentially fatal diseased cells, which remain in a patient after they have undergone hormone treatment....Click on the below link for the full story:<http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100225/Scientists-identify-new-way-to-treat-castrate-resistant-cells-in-prostate-cancer-patients.aspx>

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<snip> Although initially effective

this treatment inevitably fails…….. <snip> That simply isn’t

so. There are recorded cases of men who have used ADT (Androgen Deprivation

Therapy) having permanent remission.

It is a long way from the test tube/Petri

dish to a human….I wouldn’t be holding my breath for this ‘breakthrough’.

All the best

Terry Herbert

I have no medical

qualifications but I was diagnosed in ‘96: and have learned a bit since

then.

My sites are at www.yananow.net and www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

Dr

“Snuffy” Myers : " As a physician, I am painfully aware that most of

the decisions we make with regard to prostate cancer are made with inadequate

data "

From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of B

Sent: Saturday, 27 February 2010

8:40 AM

To:

malemedicalproblems ; malemedicalproblemsgooglegroups; ProstateCancerSupport

Subject:

New way to treat castrate resistant cells in CaP patients

For more than 60 years the main way to

treat men with prostate cancer has involved removing the hormones that fuel

growth of the cancer cells. Although initially effective this treatment

inevitably fails and when the tumour growth resumes, the disease in incurable.

Monash U's Prostate & Breast Cancer Research Program has discovered a way

to treat these potentially fatal diseased cells, which remain in a patient

after they have undergone hormone treatment....

Click on the

below link for the full story:

<http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100225/Scientists-identify-new-way-to-treat-castrate-resistant-cells-in-prostate-cancer-patients.aspx>