Breakthrough prostate cancer triple treatment offers patients years more healthy life

A breakthrough triple therapy treatment for advanced prostate cancer patients can give them years more healthy life and reduce the overall risk of death by a third.

 

The regime, which involves two standard therapies alongside a powerful new hormone medication known as darolutamide, has already proved to be effective as a standalone treatment in the earlier stages of the disease, when given to men who are no longer responding to other medications.

 

However, the pivotal trail has now shown that when combined with standard therapies, it also has a dramatic effect in patients whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body.

 

Although a cure isn’t possible, using the medication, chemotherapy and other hormone medicines, reduced pain, slowed the progression of the disease and extended survival.

 

Professor Alison Birtle, consultant clinical oncologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, called the advance “exciting”, adding “We’ve never had the option of a triple therapy like this before.

 

“This study provides a compelling argument to adding darolutamide to standing chemotherapy and hormone treatment, as it will help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer, healthier lives, with less pain.”

 

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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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