In the News – Possible New Prostate Cancer Treatment?

Snippet from the article:

Two prostate cancer patients who had been told their condition was inoperable are now cancer-free as the result of an experimental therapy, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester announced today.

“We were all pretty shocked,” says Dr. Eugene Kwon, an immunologist and urologist at Mayo and leader of the clinical trial in which the experimental therapy was being used. “These results were far beyond anything we ever envisioned.”

Read the rest — Mayo reports dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study

It’s not hair news, but prostate cancer treatment is probably more important to report on anyway. And in a related story, the pharma company that makes the aforementioned experimental therapy had some good news of their own — Medarex shares up as prostate cancer drug shows promise.