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Article: A NEW LOOK AT PROSTATE CANCER(S).
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 17, 1999
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It's common knowledge that cancer of the prostate (CaP) is the commonest lethal malignancy known to man (but not woman). In the U.S. this year, an estimated 179,300 men will be diagnosed with CaP, and 39,200 will die of the disease.
Yet, observed oncologist David Agus, at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, "The actual cause of CaP death remains a great question. The real answer is: We have no idea.
"In general," he continued, "patients die from androgen-independent prostate disease. That is, when they fail the therapy of hormone withdrawal, and the disease comes back. And it isn't much treated at that point. Chemotherapy in some ...