Effective prostate cancer treatment discovery

An Australian team of biomedical scientists has identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers. The team has discovered a way to treat these potentially fatal diseased cells, which remain in a patient after they have undergone hormone treatment.

Scientists shiwed that after the tumour is removed by castration, some cells remain and these castrate-resistant cells are the ones that give rise to recurrent incurable disease.

The team used a developed drug that not only inhibits the growth of prostate cancer but also kills off cancer cells that are resistant to conventional treatment such as androgen deprivation therapy.

The findings have been published in the prestigious medical journal PNAS.