Posted on 03/31/2023 6:50:32 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new drug combination for men with advanced prostate cancer has shown sustained increase in survival rates.
The results from the clinical trial of ENZAMET, co-chaired by Professor Christopher Sweeney, have been published.
For people with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, the addition of an androgen receptor blocker with enzalutamide to standard therapy—suppression of testosterone, with or without chemotherapy—led to a 67 percent survival rate after five years.
This compares to 57 percent of people who were alive after five years after receiving the standard best practice treatment.
"The longer-term analysis showed that the benefit of adding enzalutamide was evident in all patient subgroups, regardless of when the cancer was found to have spread, or how much was present, or whether people also received docetaxel chemotherapy," Professor Sweeney said.
"These high level findings indicate that the addition of enzalutamide should be considered as a treatment option for any patient able to receive it.
"The exploratory findings indicate it might not be necessary to add other treatments like chemotherapy."
The side effects of the addition of enzalutamide to standard of care were overall similar to what has been experienced with enzalutamide in previous clinical trials.
Metastatic prostate cancer is cancer that has spread from the prostate to other parts of the body which can be seen on conventional CT and/or bone scans.
Patients with metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer are patients who are starting treatment for metastatic disease and will most likely respond to suppression of the male sex hormone testosterone.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
The treatment is available today.
Ivermectin went through clinical trials for prostate cancer in 2020 and shown effective for survival…nih.gov.
Isn’t androgen deprivation what the trannies use to grow boobs? Guess they want everyone to grow a set lol.
They block male hormones and add female hormones.
Wouldn’t that screw with a persons love life?
Bump for later
Bookmark.
Tell me about it. 6 years and still doing fine with stage 4 prostate to bone. Sometimes the cost to live drags you down, but HEY. I have nineteen grandchildren 2 great grandchildren and 7 kids to harass.
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