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    Arrow FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    From CBS News this week on March 30, 2007:

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    Vaccine Therapy For Prostate Cancer
    Study Shows Provenge Can Ignite Immune System To Fight The Disease

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    CBS) When Eduardo Garcia's prostate cancer spread to his hip bone six years ago, his doctors decided to try something new. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports that they injected him with a vaccine to ignite his immune system to fight the cancer. After three doses of a drug called Provenge, his cancer is in check.

    "It worked for me, and it could work for many people in the future," Garcia says.

    Vaccine therapy is a new frontier of cancer treatment. It doesn't require invasive surgery or toxic chemotherapy, with all its side effects.

    Here's how it works: Tumors sometimes trick the body into thinking cancer cells are normal. Provenge tells the immune system that cancer cells are the enemy and should be attacked. One study shows that 127 patients with advanced prostate cancer survived an average of 4 1/2 months longer than those not on the drug.

    "This is a very desperate group of patients who have no other options. The cancer has spread all over their body, so that four-month survival advantage really means a lot to these men," Dr. David Penson of USC says.

    Right now, this vaccine is still experimental and only for prostate cancer that does not respond to hormone therapy.

    Urologist Dr. Mitchell Benson says the vaccine is a step forward in the fight against prostate cancer.

    "Where this is going to have the most applicability in the future is for the patient who has the very first signs of relapse where the amount of cancer in the body is not so great, and in that instance this could result in prolonged remissions," Benson explains.

    Scientists also have been working on therapy to boost the immune the system to fight other kinds of cancers, reports Dr. LaPook. The drug maker expects the FDA will decide whether to approve this prostate cancer vaccine by May 15.

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    As I see this, the vaccine is now available for those who have not responded to hormone treatment. This is excellent news for those who are still alive and fighting.

    For the rest of us, I see that this early trial will lead to a vaccine to prevent us from getting prostate cancer. The vaccine seems to go after our immune cells (see the CBS Video animation) and changes what our immune cells are looking for, thereby enabling our immune cells to attack and destroy the very early and cleverly hidden cancer tumors that are developing!

    May 15th is the FDA date for approval. I have friends who are already past the hormone treatments that do not work for them. So this is very good news.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    EXCELLENT news, David!

    I have already lost one friend to prostate cancer and know two other patients involved in different therapies and treatments.

    Prayerfully, this disease will be a "thing of the past" - and SOON!

    As with any cancer or any even any catastrophic disease/illness,
    it's day by day, a little at a time.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    Greetings David, its nice to see and hear from you, I do hope you are well and doing fine.

    Thanks for taking the time to find and post this link for us, thanks for sharing.

    Have a great day.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    David,

    Thanks for the article. Prostate cancer is to men what breast or cervicle cancer is to women - and it gets too little press.

    Men need a healthy prostate forever.
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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    To All:

    I had a PSA done last week - I think on Tuesday. It takes 2-3 minutes after you get into the lab and they only take one small vial.

    The results came back on Saturday - 0.3. The target range is 0 - 4.0.

    Guys - go get a PSA! Good results help you sleep better - a bad result gets you medical care before your problem is too serious.

    Do not wait for the vaccine - get a PSA test now.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    David,

    I did not mean to forget you. You posted some Great news for men. And it helped me get the PSA test the day after my doctor wrote the lab request (the last time, I waited 6 months to get routine lab work done).

    Thanks for thinking of us.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    I second the suggestion to get a PSA test. Early detection very important.

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    Re: FINALLY! New Prostate Cancer Vaccine!

    Greetings brothers/sisters, IPIU, David this is sure great news for us all, men and women. thanks for posting the article here.

    Have a great day.

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