Aug 08
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One a Day Pill Slows Prostate Tumor Growth
Well, it looks like there may be more exciting news in the way of prostate cancer treatment, and it comes in the form of a one a day pill that researchers are saying has shrunk prostate tumors in men with advanced prostate cancer successfully, and has shrunk them by a substantial enough amount that the news is very exciting and breakthrough in the world of prostate cancer treatment, and cancer as a whole because you never know what treatments work for one specific cancer may also have applications for other types of cancers eventually.
The drug comes from a company called Cougar Biotechnology, which is a company that is based out of Britain, and has been researched for years. It’s called Abiraterone. The drug is exciting because it delayed the typically worsening symptoms/growth of the tumor by about 400 days average, which is a very amazing feat considering that most drugs only show minimum improvements, or have to be used in great quantity to show this high of an improvement.
The men who the pill was tested on had a very serious form and advancement of prostate cancer, where the tumor had grown to a larger size, and they also believe the tumor was able to supply it’s own hormonal “fuel” testosterone, which fuels prostate cancer. What the drug Abiraterone does is to prevent the tumor from producing it’s own supply of testosterone, thereby cutting off it’s “lifeblood” and killing it or making it cease to grow, helping the prostate again become healthy and cancer free.
This seemingly marvelous new drug which has tested so well on 70 to 80 percent of the patients that have used it in clinical trials, which is unheard of for most drug’s efficacy, may be going on the market by the year 2011 if approved and all goes well in subsequent trials and testing for the anti cancer and anti tumor drug for men.
