Prostate cancer breakthrough as new drug keeps men with previously 'untreatable' cases alive

Men with previously “untreatable” prostate cancer are being kept alive by a new drug in what experts believe may be a breakthrough for patients with the worst form of the disease.

A British trial has for the first time shown that state-of-the art immunotherapy can be used to target prostate tumours.

The study at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London found more than a third of men who had run out of existing options were still alive and one in ten had not seen their tumours grow after a year of taking Pembrolizumab, which targets a gateway helps the immune system to attack cancer cells.

For some in the group, the drug even caused their tumours to shrink.

Funded by the Institute of Cancer Research, the team will now set out to identify the genes that will tell them which people are most likely to benefit from the drug.

Previous trials using immunotherapy in prostate cancer have been unsuccessful but the latest research examined the genetics of the tumours and found particular groups of patients may benefit.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/02/prostate-cancer-breakthrough-new-drug-keeps-men-previously-untreatable/

Brilliant news. They are making huge progress with treating this cancer successfully, all the time.

eddie wrote:Brilliant news. They are making huge progress with treating this cancer successfully, all the time.

Its so good to see so many advances for many cancer treatments Eddie

Hopefully there will be a day, when all cancers will be treatable.