Posts Tagged ‘Prostate Cancers’

Many Prostate Cancers Don’t Need Radical Therapy

29th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Important news for men with prostate cancer: first, the cancer tends to grow so slowly that only a fraction of patients actually die from it.
Second, men with low-grade cancer who opt for close monitoring instead of surgery to remove the prostate do not seem to suffer anxiety and distress from living with ”untreated” cancer.
Those are [...]

New Class of Drugs Promising for BRCA-Related Cancers

9th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

New drugs called PARP inhibitors appear to have a lot of promise against hereditary cancers caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 cell mutations.
PARP inhibitors work by blocking the action of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, an enzyme that helps repair DNA. In certain tumor cells, such as those from BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, blocking this enzyme can [...]