| At the prostate cancer symposium in
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| | median rate of survival was 25.9 months.
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| Orlando, co-sponsored by the American
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| | For those who got a placebo treatment,
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| Society of Clinical Oncology, Eric J.
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| | the overall of survival was 21.4 months.
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| Small, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and
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| | The conclusions were that 115 patients of
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| urology presented the findings of the
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| | this group had progressive disease at the
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| study he led helped by other 19 US
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| | time of data analysis and all patients
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| institutions, regarding an effective
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| | were followed for survival for 3 years.
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| treatment for prostate cancer.
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| | Scientists do not know if the vaccine
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| Scientists said that the rate of survival
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| | will work on patients suffering of
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| increased by four and a half months in
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| | early-stage prostate cancer and of
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| those who were administered the cancer
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| | explosive terminal cancer. The vaccine,
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| vaccine compared with those who got the
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| | called Provenge, does not cure cancer but
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| placebo.
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| | at least it slows it down.
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| For the patients this is great news
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| | Other cancer vaccines are being developed
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| because it gives them hope that an even
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| | for treating: leukemia, breast cancer,
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| better vaccine could be discovered. This
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| | colon cancer, and kidney and pancreas
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| vaccine is not like the others that are
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| | cancer as well.
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| designed to prevent a disease. This is
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| | The human body is not able to recognize
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| made to treat advanced prostate cancer by
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| | the cancer cells and that is why it can
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| increasing the immune system's response
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| | not fight them without help. The vaccine
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| to cancer cells.
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| | is designed to alert the body is
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| The vaccine was well tolerated by
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| | cancerous cells are present. Provenge has
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| patients and the side effects were mild:
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| | been made out of a genetically engineered
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| fever and chills. This is good news
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| | protein and a dendritic cell provided
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| because chemotherapy and radiation gives
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| | from the patient's bloodstream. After
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| a lot of unbearable side effects.
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| | getting the vaccine shots, the immune
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| Small included in the study 127 patients
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| | system will react and will activate
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| suffering of asymptomatic metastatic
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| | immune T-cells to find and destroy the
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| hormone refractory prostate cancer
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| | cancer cells.
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| (HRPC). 82 of them received the vaccine
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| | This discovery is important not only for
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| and 45 got placebo. They were
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| | those who suffer of the disease but also
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| administered three shots over six weeks.
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| | for the field. This vaccine confirms what
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| The treatment continued three years.
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| | everybody denied, that vaccines can
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| For those treated with the vaccine, the
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| | really work.
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