Prostate News Archive

23-Jul-2008

Drug Shows Promise in Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer (Fox News)

Scientists are claiming to have made a major breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer with a new pill that shrinks tumors.

New prostate cancer drug offers hope (TVNZ)

Thousands of men suffering from prostate cancer are being offered hope thanks to a ground-breaking new drug. Doctors in Britain say Abiraterone represents a 'major step forward' in the treatment of highly aggressive prostate cancer which, before now, has been almost an untreatable disease.

New pill helps shrink prostate tumors: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

A once-a-day pill significantly shrank tumors in men with advanced prostate cancer who had not responded to other treatments, researchers said on Tuesday.

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