Novel Chemo Drug Helps Treat Prostate Cancer
Friday, May 30, 2008 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
Men with a certain type of prostate cancer have been shown to respond to a new chemotherapy drug, sagopilone, plus prednisone in an international trial. The research involved men with androgen-independent prostate cancer that has metastasized, meaning their cancer has spread beyond the prostate and is not longer responding to hormonal therapies.
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