Newswise (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Join the Mount Sinai Medical Center's leading urological experts to discuss the efficacy of open, laparoscopic, and robotic prostatectomies.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A new drug could provide a step forward in treating the most common cancer among men in England and Wales. Abiraterone has been developed to fight prostate cancer, which kills 9,000 men in England and Wales every year, according to the NHS.
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Abiraterone, an experimental cancer drug under trial, has potential for shrinking prostate tumors at a fast rate and giving cancer patients double the chance of survival in 70 to 80 percent of patients with aggressive cancers. The study has a small trial sample of 21 patients, although the medication was first tested in over 250 men with similar positive results.
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | yesterday
British researchers have made a dramatic breakthrough against a lethal form of prostate cancer, a new drug that in trials has shrunk tumours in up to 80 per cent of cases.
Bitch News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Drug for deadly prostate cancer, BBC News reports here: Scientists are hailing a new drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer as potentially the most significant advance in the field for 70 years.
TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Anyone notice the unusual amount of sweating Winston is doing while being interviewed? The man has a lot to be worried about but the sweating seems to be very similar to the excessive sweating one gets from prostate medicine doesn't it? If he is ill won't that make the medias focus on him sweating seem a bit nasty?
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Congressional hearings on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to be held tomorrow. Christian Bale arrested on assault charges brought by his mother and sister. A push or a brush: Bale charges trumped up? BBC Radio1 DJ Kevin Greening, who died last...
Truemors (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A new prostate cancer drug, called abiraterone, is showing stunning results in Britain. The latest study found 80% tumor shrinkage, and the amount of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) halved. The drug works by blocking production of the hormones throughout the body. The Institute of Cancer Research hopes a simple pill form of abiraterone will be available [...]
Fox News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Scientists are claiming to have made a major breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer with a new pill that shrinks tumors.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Scientists are hailing a new drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer as potentially the most significant advance in the field for 70 years. Abiraterone could potentially treat up to 80% of patients with a deadly form of the disease resistant to currently available chemotherapy, they say. The drug works by blocking the hormones which fuel the cancer.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cell Genesys, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEGE) announced today the publication of final data from the second of two Phase 2 clinical trials (G-0010) of GVAX
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Smith: It seems good news: a new weapon against an invidious disease. But the reality is much less straightforward
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Lyndsay Moss SIMON Bush was first diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in 2005. Radiotherapy and hormone therapy initially reduced the severity of the cancer, but tests in August 2006 revealed it had returned with force.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Lyndsay Moss THE last decade has seen major leaps forward in cancer treatment in the search for the latest "wonder drug". Developments such as the creation of drugs which target particular types of cancer have brought new hope to patients.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A WONDER pill blocks the advance of prostate cancer with hardly any side effects, it is claimed. Experts believe Abiraterone could treat eight out of 10 aggressive tumours that have resisted all other treatments.
