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

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   It might also be combined with chemotherapy or radiation, Dr. Barbieri says. Hormone therapy may bring ... immunotherapy options for prostate cancer, including Sipuleucel-T, a vaccine comprised of ...

3. David Agus - Wikipedia

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   David B. Agus (/ ˈ eɪ ɡ ə s /) is an American physician, cancer researcher and author [1] who serves as a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering [2] and the Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine. [3]

4. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Radiation therapy is commonly used in prostate cancer treatment. It may be used instead of surgery or after surgery in early-stage prostate cancer (adjuvant radiotherapy). Radiation treatments also can be combined with hormonal therapy for intermediate risk disease, when surgery or radiation therapy alone is less likely to cure the cancer.

5. Prostate brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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   Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy, or radiation treatment, offered to certain cancer patients. There are two types of brachytherapy – high dose-rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR). LDR brachytherapy is the one most commonly used to treat prostate cancer. It may be referred to as 'seed implantation' or it may be called 'pinhole surgery'. [1]

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

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   A team from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, found NXP800 slowed the growth of prostate cancer cells, including those that had developed a resistance to the hormone therapy enzalutamide.

7. 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 ...