Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 04:42
in Health & Medicine
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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