Drug for deadly prostate cancer

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

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.

The Institute of Cancer Research hopes a simple pill form will be available in two to three years.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7502238.stm

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This is headline news across all media in the UK this morning.

Nice to have a bit of good news for a change.

[sasquatch]

1. Nice post Jonas Salk

:P

[bluestateguy]

2. That is, if the natural prevention method fails

It's called the hand and stroke.

[fla nocount]

3. Dinner and dancing work too.

If you can afford it.

[FlaGranny]

4. Sadly, if either method worked

prostate cancer would be much rarer. Both methods are protective against prostate cancer, but it happens anyway, even among sexually active men, and some very young men. Don't ever think it couldn't happen to you and DO get those exams and PSA tests.

[fla nocount]

5. Thanks for the advice...........you're cute ya know. n/t

[FlaGranny]

11. Haha! I haven't been called "cute"

in a long time. :-)

I HATE cancer and what it does to people and I don't want any good Democrats thinking they can avoid cancer just by having a "good time." Would that it were so. ;-)

[fla nocount]

13. Preventive medicine......it's all about me, ya know, cutety pie. n/t

[crim son]

6. The FIL died of prostate cancer and it was ugly.

Not a joking matter and I hope this drug lives up to its promise.

[Akoto]

7. The prostate cancer 'wonder pill' set to save thousands every year

Source: Daily Mail Online

British researchers have made a dramatic breakthrough against a lethal form of prostate cancer.

Trials of a new pill have shown that it can shrink tumours in up to 80 per cent of cases, and end the need for damaging chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Experts hailed the advance as potentially the biggest in the field of prostate cancer for decades, capable of saving many thousands of lives.

Scientists believe the technique could also be effective on other tumours, such as breast and bowel cancers.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1037074/The-prostate-cancer-wonder-pill-set-save-thousands-year.html

[Bonobo]

8. Not in time for so many, so many.

* Merv Griffin
* Dan Fogelberg
* Bill Bixby
* Telly Savalas
* Frank Zappa
* Earl Woods (Tiger Woods Dad)
* Bobby Riggs
* Thomas Witter (Dean-Witter-Reynolds)
* Johnny Ramone
* Steve Ross (CEO Time-Warner)

Famous people diagnosed with prostate cancer
Harry Belafonte Singer and actor
Bob Dole World Former Republican senator from Kansas
Robert De Niro Actor director
Emperor Akihito of Japan
Louis Farrakhan Civil right activist, leader of the Nation of Islam
Rudy Giuliani Former New York City mayor
Charlton Heston Actor
John Kerry Vietnam veteran, Democratic senator of Massachusetts
Nelson Mandela South African Former President, Anti-apartheid activist, Lawyer
Francois Mitterand Former President of France
Roger Moore Actor
Arnold Palmer Golfer
Colin Powell Retired Secretary of State, Army general
Norman Schwarzkopf Retired Army general
Joe Torre New York Yankees manager
Frank Zappa Singer writer

[Truth4Justice]

15. As long as you have health insurance to pay for it, its great news. The rest of us will die.

[Bruce McAuley]

9. This deserves the Greatest Page...

Good news for prostate cancer sufferers if they can hold on for 2 to 3 years.

Bruce

[LeftishBrit]

10. This is very encouraging; hope it lives up to its promise!

I have known a few people who died of prostate cancer, and have a couple of friends living with it.

[jayfish]

12. How Long WIll It Take For Insurance Companies...

to consider it non-experimental and pay for it?

Jay

[Truth4Justice]

16. Couple of years, if its approved by the FDA ,that is. And you have insurance.

[crimanimalz]

14. drugs are unnecessary.. prostate cancer is no exception

http://www.drrau.com/inner/sbm_diseases_pc.html

western medicine is a scam

[calimary]

17. Thanks for posting this!

It IS nice to have a bit of good news for a change! Certainly hopeful news.