Prostate News Archive
30-Mar-2007
FDA Panel OKs New Prostate Cancer Drug (WebMD)
A new immune system treatment used to treat advanced prostate cancer is safe and effective enough to begin U.S. sales, a panel of FDA advisors concluded. Obesity boosts prostate cancer mortality (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Obese men diagnosed with prostate cancer are more than twice as likely to die of the disease than their leaner peers, a new study shows. FDA Panel Backs Prostate Cancer Vaccine (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, March 29 (Healthday News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Thursday to support approval of Provenge, a vaccine aimed at extending survival for patients with deadly metastatic prostate cancer.
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