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Systemic Therapy in Advancing or Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Evaluation of Drug Efficacy (STAMPEDE) is a clinical trial investigating treatments for high risk or terminal prostate cancer. Recruitment started in 2005 and ended in 2022; as of January 2020, over 10,000 participants had joined the trial.
Its extract has been promoted as a prostate cancer medicine; however, according to the American Cancer Society, "available scientific studies do not support claims that saw palmetto can prevent or treat prostate cancer in humans". [100] Seasilver – an expensive dietary supplement made mostly from plant extracts and promoted by two U.S. companies.
One 2021 study from JAMA Oncology aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety determined in randomized clinical trials of systemic treatments for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC). The study found that "as add-on treatments to ADT, abiraterone acetate and apalutamide may provide the largest overall survival benefits with ...
Doctors are hoping the “olive oil drug” 2-OHOA can treat a deadly and incurable brain cancer, since the results of an early trial show promise for glioblastoma patients. ardanz – stock.adobe.com
More than 1,200 men were promised a clean bed, three free square meals a day and free medical care if they were found to have prostate cancer. Hudson's early experience with seeing patients dying at a tuberculosis hospital he was working at led him to develop an interest in prostate cancer. His discovery about the lack of information regarding ...
New research links omega-6 fatty acids, commonly found in seed oils, and colon cancer growth. But there’s more to the story—and study if you read it carefully.
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...
A new study finds that many fish oil supplements make broad health claims that aren't backed up.