Experimental prostate cancer drug may improve COVID-19 survival; younger patients report long lasting symptoms

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The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

An experimental prostate cancer drug improved the survival of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Brazil in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Tuesday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. The drug, proxalutamide being developed by Kintor Pharmaceuticals

, blocks the effects of androgen hormones by inactivating their "receptors" on cell surfaces. Before the spikes on the surface of the coronavirus can break into cells and infect them, they must be "primed" by a protein called TMPRSS2, which is regulated by androgen receptors, explained study co-author John McCoy of Applied Biology Inc.

 

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