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Causes and Cures:
New Prostate Cancer Research

Which discovery will turn out to be the next big breakthrough?

Clinical Trial Information FDA Approval Process

Unless otherwise stated, the drugs, treatments or claims in this section have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 

Study results are provided for your general information only.  

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Progress is being made on many fronts. Treatments range from those in the earliest phases of research, decades from the marketplace, to those widely available but still being improved.

Major areas of research and development and what they hope to achieve:

Causes and Risk Factors: To find out what causes prostate cancer so we can find ways to interrupt the process. To find out how factors like family history, race, age and weight mean effect your risk, prognosis or treatment outcomes.

Heredity | Race | Age | Obesity | Smoking

Prevention, Diet and Drugs: To confirm what we now suspect, that certain foods and substances can lower (or increase) your risk. Some drugs may even help men with pre-cancerous conditions (HGPIN) or slow-growing prostate cancer avoid ever having to undergo treatment.

Diet Overview | Soy | Vegetables | Anti-Oxidant Beverages
Vitamin D | Vitamin E | Lycopene  | Selenium
Good and Bad Fats | Calcium and Dairy Products 
Prevention Drugs

Screening and Diagnosis: To more accurately determine which men need biopsies and which do not. To better diagnose cancers and determine which are likely to become deadly, and which can safely be lived with. To pinpoint the location of cancer cells and tumors, both to determine the spread of cancer and to guide precision surgery and radiation.

Screening Statistics | Screening Guidelines | New Screening Tests
Biopsy | Pathology, Lab Analysis | Imaging

Initial Treatment: To completely destroy or remove the cancer while sparing the surrounding nerves and tissues.

Surgery, Robotic Surgery | Radiation
Cryotherapy | High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) | Heat, Hyperthermia

Hormone Therapy: To block hormone driven cancer growth with fewer side effects and prevent prostate cancer from becoming hormone independent.

Hormone Therapy | Hormone Independence

Bone Treatment and Pain Management: To better prevent traveling cancer cells from taking root in bone and growing new tumors, and to alleviate the bone weakness caused by hormone therapy and the pain caused by cancer that has spread to the bone.

Bisphosphonates | Other Bone-related Drugs

Chemotherapy and Therapy Combinations: To develop more effective chemotherapy drugs and drug combinations, and to develop chemosensitizers - drugs to break down cancer’s chemotherapy resistance.

Chemotherapy | Taxanes
Chemosensitizers and Therapy Combinations

New Forms of Treatment: To target and kill cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed. To determine the role of genes and proteins in the cancer process. To give immune systems the tools they need to recognize and fight prostate cancer cells.

Genes, Proteins and Supercomputers
  Targeted Drugs | Vaccines, Immunotherapy

To prevent tumors from growing new blood vessels. To find out what makes prostate cancer turn aggressive and spread. To apply advanced technology to the treatment of cancer.

Angiogenesis Inhibitors | Metastasis | Nanotechnology

If you have additional information about any of these topics
you'd like to bring to our attention, please email it to us at
info@FightProstateCancer.org

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Join the fight. Visit our Advocacy section to learn more about prostate cancer research: who does it, where the funding comes from, and what you can do to help increase it.

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