Prostate cancer patients live longer after drug tracks and kills 'hidden' tumours

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The two-part drug developed by pharmaceutical giant Novartis tracks malignant cells hiding beyond the prostate, before killing them via radiation.

Watch: Experimental drug tracks and kills advanced prostate tumourswith the tumour generally being non-aggressive and slow growing.killing around 11,900 patients in 2018 alone.

The pharmaceutical giant Novartis has therefore developed a two-part drug, which tracks malignant cells hiding beyond the prostate, before killing them via radiation. An additional four months of life may not seem significant, however, "these patients don't have many options".So-called radiopharmaceuticals are an emerging class of medicine that deliver radiation directly into cancer cells.Read more:

After receiving the experimental drug, the men generally lived for 15 months, compared to 11 months among the control group patients.Around one in eight men in the UK will develop prostate cancer at some point in their life.

 

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