Gene Guided Treatment

Doctors are starting to look to gene-guided treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer, taking a larger step toward more personalized medicine. This approach is already being used to treat breast and other types of cancer. For prostate cancer, gene based treatment would target those whose prostate cancer has spread to the bones or other parts of the body and hopefully succeed where hormone treatment has failed. Finding genetic signatures in prostate tumors has been a struggle since men tend to get prostate biopsies early on before the cancer has spread, making it more difficult to evaluate advanced tumor samples for genetic activity.

"This gives us a more scientifically reasoned, evidence-based approach to treating these men - hopefully. That's the theory," said Dr. Durado Brooks of the American Cancer Society.

Advances continue to be made in treatment of prostate cancer, so keep on exploring your options.

Have a good Thursday.
Blessings,
Rick