Vaccine for prostate cancer?
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I googled and found this
I googled and found this article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/26/earlyshow/health/main6433211.shtml
It sounds like it is for 'advanced cases' of prostate cancer and extends life for about 4 months in the studies done. So save your $70k and don't spend it!
Perhaps though it will lead to other findings.
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Provengelewvino said:I googled and found this
I googled and found this article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/26/earlyshow/health/main6433211.shtml
It sounds like it is for 'advanced cases' of prostate cancer and extends life for about 4 months in the studies done. So save your $70k and don't spend it!
Perhaps though it will lead to other findings.
Larry
The vaccine expecting FDA approval 'Real Soon Now' is indeed Provenge (sipuleucel-T)
It has only been tested against advanced prostate cancer.
There are some links in this thread:
http://csn.cancer.org/node/188308
Lead to something? No, this IS something! It will be the first "active immunotherapy" to be FDA approved for the treatment of cancer.
The 4.1 month increase in median survival may not sound like much, but it is the largest increase ever seen in a phase 3 trial for any treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Other numbers from the studies showed an increase in 36-month survival from 21% to 32%, a 50% increase. That's not a trivial increase from my perspective.
From: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100421/full/4641110a.html
"The vaccine is tailor-made for each patient by harvesting his dendritic cells — a type of immune cell — and exposing them to a cancer-associated protein called prostatic acid phosphatase. Once infused back into the patient, the exposed cells should trigger an immune assault on tumour cells."0
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