Drug/vaccine combo experiment being tried on advanced prostate cancer
June 20, 2010 by Jim Tucker
URO TODAY: An experiment that combines a standard advanced prostate cancer drug treatment with a vaccine to assist the immune system has just begun in the US. READ MORE>
Looking to harness the body’s own immune system to target prostate cancer that has spread to the bones (metastatic) and is unresponsive to standard treatment, investigators have just launched a clinical trial combining vaccine and radiation drug therapy.
The goal is to see if disease progression will be further delayed by adding two different experimental injections to the standard treatment.
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