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2. What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer Treatments - AOL

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   New Advancements in Prostate Cancer Treatment RESEARCHERS CONTINUE TO look for new treatments for prostate cancer, and a number of “exciting developments” are in the works, Dr. Siddiqui says.

3. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care for advanced-stage prostate cancer focuses on extending life and relieving the symptoms of metastatic disease. As noted above, abiraterone is showing some promise in treating advanced-stage prostate cancer. It causes a dramatic reduction in PSA levels and tumor sizes in aggressive advanced-stage prostate cancer for 70% of patients.

4. Drug breakthrough offers hope for advanced prostate cancer ...

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   An innovative new drug being trialled to tackle certain cancers could also benefit patients with advanced prostate cancer whose treatment has stopped working, according to scientists.

5. New prostate cancer imaging shows ‘extremely encouraging ...

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   Prostate cancer imaging developed by university researchers has shown “extremely encouraging” results in its first clinical trials. A team at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, leading the ...

6. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Radium-223 - Wikipedia

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   The use of radium-223 to treat metastatic bone cancer relies on the ability of alpha radiation from radium-223 and its short-lived decay products to kill cancer cells. Radium is preferentially absorbed by bone by virtue of its chemical similarity to calcium, with most radium-223 that is not taken up by the bone being cleared, primarily via the ...