Posted on February 9, 2017 by Sitemaster
According to a recently published article in The Prostate, researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new type of drug that they believe may have high therapeutic potential in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). … READ MORE …
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Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sitemaster
So the other morning your sitemaster learned that a relatively new FirstWord Therapy Report had come out that dealt with future use of biopharmaceuticals in the treatment of progressive and advanced prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 14, 2016 by Sitemaster
Readers with an interest in how we got to today’s clinical trials processes for evaluating new drugs for the treatment of prostate cancer and other diseases might be surprised by what’s in an article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 14, 2016 by Sitemaster
For readers who are interested in the processes and the speed with which potential new cancer drugs can be brought to market here in the USA (and other places around the world too), there in an important article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 21, 2016 by Sitemaster
Yet another set of researchers have found yet another possible new drug that seems to have significant activity in management of prostate cancer — in mice! Whether it will have activity in men is a whole other question. … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 4, 2016 by Sitemaster
Many readers of this blog will be aware of the development of immunotherapies like sipuleucel-T (Provenge), CAR-T for the treatment of leukemias, and checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of some forms of solid tumor (lung cancers, melanoma). … READ MORE …
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Posted on October 1, 2015 by Sitemaster
In an article published on Monday September 28, in Pharmaceutical Executive (a well-known biopharmaceutical industry trade journal) a senior health care public relations executive recently laid out a detailed rationale for why the industry needs to do a better job … READ MORE …
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