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Biolyse Pharma stymied in effort to make cheaper version of pricey prostate cancer drug

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A small Canadian company has waded into a U.S. drug price controversy by offering to make an expensive prostate cancer drug for a fraction of the price. Right now Xtandi costs U.S. patients as much as $129,000 US a year, or about $90 per pill. St. Catharines, Ont.-based Biolyse Pharma says it can make the drug for $3 a pill, or $4,400 per year, but has so far been unable to get U.S. health authorities to override the existing patent. Read the article here.

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Prostate Cancer Treatment Breakthrough

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Scientists with Deakin’s School of Medicine have found that, when coupled with the milk protein lactoferrin, the chemotherapy drug Doxorubicin (Dox) can be delivered directly into the nucleus of prostate cancer cells and will kill them cells as well as drug resistant cancer stem cells, without any side-effects. Read the article here.

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Psychological Effects From ADT a Growing Challenge in Prostate Cancer

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Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) can be associated with significant psychological effects in patients with prostate cancer. Additionally, these side effects—which include depression, Alzheimer disease, and coronary disease—are often under-reported by patients. Read the article here.

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Prostate Cancer Surgery and Pelvic Floor Exercises: What to Know

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In this video, shared by Continence Foundation of Australia, listen to Specialist Continence & Women’s Health Physiotherapist, Shan Morrison, as she discusses urinary incontinence in men after prostate cancer surgery. Dr. Morrison also talks about pelvic floor exercises and how these can help men in their recovery. Watch the video here.

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Trends in targeted prostate brachytherapy: from multiparametric MRI to nanomolecular radiosensitizers

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Brachytherapy, a form of localized radiation therapy, has been shown to be one of the most effective methods for delivering high radiation doses to the cancer; however, recent evidence suggests that increasing the localized radiation dose without bound may cause unacceptable increases in long-term side effects. This review focuses on methods that have been proposed, or are already in clinical use, to safely escalate the dose of radiation within the prostate. Read the article here.

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Predicting if your surgery for prostate cancer will fail

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Many men who are told their surgery for prostate cancer has been a success later discover that this is not the case. The level of a protein in their blood, called prostate specific antigen, PSA, begins to rise signalling they still have prostate cells in their body even though they were told the entire prostate had been removed. There has been long standing debate about how best to predict who will fail after surgery. The current debate focuses on the value of pathologists examining the excised prostate and trying to detect, under the microscope, whether tumour cells have invaded the

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