Effective prostate cancer treatment discovery
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Monash University biomedical scientists have identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers – the most common cancer in Australian men.
For more than 60 years the main way to treat men with prostate cancer has involved removing the hormones that fuel growth of the cancer cells.
Although initially effective, this treatment inevitably fails and when the tumour growth resumes, the disease is incurable.
The Monash team, from the Prostate & Breast Cancer Research Program, has discovered a way to treat these potentially fatal diseased cells, which remain in a patient after they have undergone hormone treatment.
The findings have been published in the medical journal PNAS.
