Personalised vaccines
Personalised vaccines Thousands to trial personalised cancer vaccines but no mention of PCa. See here
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Free help with food/diet Struggling with any aspect of eating while going through cancer? The World Cancer Research Fund Cancer and Nutrition Helpline is now free to call. Can’t find anything to eat that doesn’t make you feel sick? Worried about how different food will interact with your medicine? Or maybe you’ve seen something about […]
PCa cases set to double
Cases of the disease are expected to grow as men live longer, with Britain expected to have a 32 per cent increase. We need to start planning and take action now, says UK expert. More here
Wellbeing hub launched
Prostate Cancer UK have created this wellbeing hub to help support you in looking after your emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. More here. And Prostate Cancer Research has more advice on that here
Water-jet treatment
Water-jet procedure to shrink enlarged prostates will be offered to thousands of men as routine NHS treatment More here
Can cancer cells be blocked?
A research team is investigating whether drugs can be used to prevent PCa from spreading, treat that which has already spread and perhaps even delay or prevent resistance to current therapies. More here
Drug resistance reversed
Scientists reverse drug resistance in PCa by targeting ‘hijacked’ white blood cells (Oct ’23). See here
Drug ‘to help 10,000 with advanced PCa’
A revolutionary ‘new era’ drug, Lu-PSMA, acts like a ‘guided missile’ to target cancerous cells and spares healthy tissue, writes Eleanor Hayward, Health Correspondent, in the Times.
Survival rates finding
Active monitoring of PCa has the same high survival rates after 15 years as radiotherapy or surgery, reports the ProtecT trial, led by Bristol and Oxford Universities. Although men on active monitoring were more likely to see it progress or spread than those receiving radiotherapy or surgery, this didn’t reduce their likelihood of survival. The […]
A ’cancer-killing pill’ but…
A ’cancer-killing pill’ that appears to ‘annihilate’ tumours is being tested on humans. More here But an unprecedented analysis of how cancers grow has revealed an “almost infinite” ability of tumours to evolve and survive, say scientists. Nine years work left the research team “surprised” and “in awe” at the formidable force they were up […]