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Contrast-enhanced subharmonic imaging detects prostate cancers
A test of contrast-enhanced subharmonic imaging has shown promise in detecting prostate cancers that were not identified by MRI...
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Researchers to investigate screening for prostate cancer using MRI
A new clinical study will test for the first time if MRI scans can be used for population screening to detect prostate cancer more accurately...
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Taking a standard prostate cancer drug with food boosts impact
By taking Zytiga with a low-fat meal could decrease the daily dose and prevent digestive issues...
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Acoustic Cluster Therapy drives drug therapies to cancer cells
Researchers are testing the use of pulsed sound waves to direct and focus cancer drug therapies...
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Copper PET imaging detects early recurrence of prostate cancer
An Italian study demonstrates that copper accumulation in tumours can detect prostate cancer recurrence early in patients with biochemical relapse...
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Dietary fat, changes in fat metabolism may promote prostate cancer metastasis
Researchers have shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that promote metastasis and implicated the typical Western high-fat diet as a key environmental factor...
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Shorter treatment course better for intermediate risk prostate cancer?
New research suggests that treatment with a shorter course of radiation using higher doses over fewer days may be the preferred approach for some men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer.
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EC extends license for Zytiga to treat early stage prostate cancer
The EC has granted approval to broaden the existing marketing authorisation for Zytiga to include early stage metastatic prostate cancer...
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Tapeworm drug fights prostate cancer
A Norwegian study shows that NTZ contains a substance that can kill prostate and colon cancer...
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Q BioMed to commercialise non-narcotic metastatic cancer pain drug
Q BioMed Inc has initiated production of Strontium-89 Chloride, a radiopharmaceutical indicated for the analgesic treatment of metastatic breast and prostate cancer bone pain.
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Merrimack initiates Phase 1 study of MM-310 in solid tumours
29 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals have enrolled its first patient in a Phase 1 study of MM-310 in solid tumours.
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Panacea initiates Phase I prostate cancer vaccine therapy trial
19 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
Panacea Pharmaceuticals have enrolled and dosed the first patient in the open-label, parallel designed, multi-centre Phase I clinical trial of PAN-301-1, for the treatment of persistent prostate cancer to assess safety and immunogenicity. Clinical sites for the PAN-301-1 trial are located in Alabama, California, Nebraska and South Carolina and the…
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NICE says ‘yes’ to degarelix for men with prostate cancer and spinal metastases
1 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
NICE has recommended Ferring’s Firmagon (degarelix) for men with advanced-hormone dependent prostate cancer and spinal metastases...
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Takeda and Roivant launch Myovant Sciences Ltd
7 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Myovant Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering innovative women’s health and prostate cancer therapeutics...
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Bayer and Orion expand BAY-1841788 programme in prostate cancer
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The Phase III study ARASENS will evaluate BAY-1841788 in men with newly diagnosed metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer...
