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It has just been recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a generic version of Zytiga, the new drug’s name is Yonsa. It is a novel formulation of abiraterone acetate that needs to be used in combination with methylprednisolone for the treatment of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Read the complete article on CancerABCs.org HERE
An exciting proof-of-concept study of Lutetium-177 PSMA (Lu PSMA) was published in the journal Lancet Oncology. Lu-PSMA has been described as “a disruptive therapy and has the potential to change practice” in the future treatment of men with end-stage prostate cancer.
Lu-PSMA, a nuclear therapy, has been used in Germany for many years under compassionate use basis. This particular study was conducted in Australia. The study results offer hope for men with end-stage prostate cancer who have exhausted all their treatment options.
Read more on Prostate Cancer Foundation HERE
and CancerABCs.org HERE
and SBS News HERE
UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a promising new line of attack against lethal, treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Analysis of hundreds of human prostate tumors revealed that the most aggressive cancers depend on a built-in cellular stress response to put a brake on their own hot-wired physiology. Experiments in mice and with human cells showed that blocking this stress response with an experimental drug—previously shown to enhance cognition and restore memory after brain damage in rodents—causes treatment-resistant cancer cells to self-destruct while leaving normal cells unaffected.
The new study was published online May 2, 2018 in Science Translational Medicine.
Read the entire article on MedicalXpress.com HERE
and technologyneworks.com HERE