Hospital opens new treatment for prostate cancer on October 12
October 12 Hospital Unveils Therapeutic Alternative for Very Aggressive Type of Prostate Cancer
He Hospital October 12 found in a study published in the journal ‘Annals of Oncology”, the effectiveness of a therapeutic treatment for a type of prostate cancer that has already been used for other tumors, such as ovarian, breast or lung cancer. Although prostate cancer It’s usually not fatal There are two types of tumors that result from genetic changes, with 13% of tumors being very aggressive.
This means that many common treatments for this disease They usually don’t respond positively and the survival rate of these patients is very limited. Doctors at the hospital proved on October 12 that this type of cancer can be treated with drugs called PARP inhibitors, already used for tumors such as breast, ovary or lung.
Research published in “Annals of Oncology”:
The results so far are clear. On the one hand, they show that with these drugs progression is delayed patients with these very aggressive tumors and, on the other hand, life expectancy may be the same as those who do not have these changes. To do this, for the first time, a genetic study was carried out on the patient and his tumor to understand how these treatments affect them.
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