Prostate News: - Prostate Cancer Drug Breakthrough For Aggressive Form Of Disease
Prostate Cancer Drug Breakthrough For Aggressive Form Of Disease
A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic reductions in PSA (a protein marker for prostate cancer) and tumour shrinkage, even in tumours that had spread to bone and other tissue.
UK watchdog urges doctors to cut antibiotics
LONDON (Reuters) - British doctors should slash the number of times they prescribe antibiotics for respiratory tract infections because the drugs rarely help, the country’s drug cost watchdog said on Wednesday.