VPC News

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week - Vancouver Prostate Centre takes revolutionary approach to drug discovery

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NEWS RELEASE Monday September 17, 2012 Vancouver, BC – Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre at Vancouver Coastal Health and UBC are undertaking a revolutionary approach to find new drug therapies and molecular targets that will help prostate cancer patients who have become resistant to...
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Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer treatment: long-term multi-centre study results

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A new study co-authored by Dr. Larry Goldenberg, urologic surgeon and researcher at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and head of the Department Urologic Sciences at UBC, has shown that prostate cancer patients who are given a “drug holiday” have the same survival rate as the continuous treatment group...
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New pan-Canadian Terry Fox Research Institute network receives close to $4-million to find better tools to treat prostate cancer

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Drs. Martin Gleave and Colin Collins part of new pan-Canadian prostate cancer network A new pan-Canadian network of prostate cancer researchers formed by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) aims to address this need with approximately $4-million provided by the Terry Fox Foundation and the...
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