Prostate cancer can not be treated with steroids

Common steroid-based drugs to combat prostate cancer, in fact, accelerate tumor growth. This conclusion was Italian and British scientists.

Prostate Cancer Treatment

Researchers from the UK Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Foundation, and Italian University of Trento was observed in the details of the treatment of 16 patients breast cancer in the third or fourth step. It was found that by using glucocorticoid s   swelling of the prostate gland often mutated and began to develop more actively. In fact, medications for fight cancer accelerated the course of the disease.

Glucocorticoids   It refers to the steroid medication, which is quite It is often used together with hormonal therapy for prostate cancer treatment . It is believed that the steroids allow control the disease, although in reality it was discovered that not only do they ineffective but also dangerous, as it accelerates the growth of tumors. Therefore, patients these diseases need regular blood tests to monitor mutations in prostate tumors in time to change the treatment algorithm.

The study authors recommend oncologists use a so-called "liquid biopsy" by which analyzed the DNA of the tumor, circulate in the blood. This may give more accurate picture of the disease in each patient, and means Prostate Cancer Treatment   will significantly more effective. Sami researchers used in their work difficult genetic analysis of biopsies and blood samples from patients in the advanced stages Cancer. The data published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. (READ CONT)

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