4.30.2007

Health Blog : Drugs In Works for Advanced Prostate Cancer

Health Blog : Drugs In Works for Advanced Prostate Cancer: "Several experimental drugs may soon be able to help patients with prostate cancer whose disease doesn’t respond to hormone therapy. That lack of response marks the last, deadly stage of the disease. Only one drug, Sanofi-Aventis’s Taxotere, is approved for men in this stage, and median survival for patients on the drug is only 19 months. Cowen and Company has a report out today on some possible new drugs to treat this condition. Here are the key points."