Post-castration Drug Therapy in Prostate Cancer Patients

Posted by admin on January 26th, 2010 No Comments

A new study concludes that men treated with the drug flutamide after surgical castration for advanced metastatic prostate cancer have poorer qualities of life, compared to patients not taking the drug.

* researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, Washington, studied more than 700 prostate cancer who were castrated to reduce testosterone levels to collect data.

* found that those patients post-operatively treated with flutamide reported higher levels of diarrhea and mental health problems after three months, compared to patients taking a placebo.

* authors further note that, in agreement with another recently- published study, no survival benefit was found among those treated with the drug after castration, compared to those given a placebo.

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