List view / Grid view

Prostate cancer

news

Immune cells dictate tumour progression

15 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Analysing individuals' genotypes and immunotypes could yield customised treatments for prostate cancer...

news

CXCL5 protein found to stimulate tumour growth in prostate cancer

24 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers identify a pathway that causes tumour acceleration in metastatic prostate cancer cells...

news

Anti-hormone therapy reduces recurrence of prostate cancer

5 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

British scientists have investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on patients with prostate cancer...

news

Novel immunotherapy technology for prostate cancer

18 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Scientists have described a novel immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer based on the use of synthetic DNA...

news

Blood cell discovery identifies patients with aggressive prostate cancer

16 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

Patients who have aggressive prostate cancer could be identified by a highly accurate and simple blood test, according to a new study.

news

New blood test uses nanotechnology to predict prostate cancer

14 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

A new diagnostic will allow men to bypass painful biopsies to test for aggressive prostate cancer.

news

MRI use may “change the equation” for prostate cancer screening

29 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

Screening for prostate cancer is controversial. It can save lives, but it can also lead to unnecessary diagnoses, followed by surgical or radiation procedures, which themselves may lead to severe side-effects.

news

Marker for aggressive prostate cancer doubles-up as a drug target

10 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

Researchers have discovered that a marker found on aggressive prostate cancer cells could also be used as a way to guide treatments to the cancer...

news

Gene defect biomarker for targeted prostate cancer therapy

5 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

The loss of CHD1, one of the most mutated genes in prostate tumours, sensitises human prostate cancer cells to different drugs, a biomarker for...

news

Hsp90 inhibitors could treat lethal resistant prostate cancers

1 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

Researchers found that Hsp90 inhibitors target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects of standard treatment...

news

Potential prostate cancer treatment demonstrates ‘great efficacy’

22 March 2016 | By Victoria White

The treatment is designed to inhibit the activity of a protein called PAK-1, which contributes to the development of highly invasive prostate cancer cells...

article

Drug Target Review’s top 10 stories from 2015

28 January 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer, Drug Target Review

2015 was an exciting year for the drug discovery industry. Here we look at a selection of stories that particularly stood out for us…

news

Study identifies MDSCs as possible prostate cancer target

22 December 2015 | By Victoria White

MDSCs are immune cells that “expand” when faced with cancer, inflammation or infections, giving them the unique ability to suppress the body’s T-cell response to disease...

news

miR-124 reduces tumour growth in advanced prostate cancer

18 November 2015 | By Victoria White

miR-124 hit multiple targets, reducing androgen receptor signalling and reviving the potency of advanced prostate cancer treatment Xtandi (enzalutamide)...

news

Scientists discover switched off gene in prostate cancer cells

26 October 2015 | By Victoria White

The discovery could shed light on how prostate cancer spreads and provides a possible new target for the disease...

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertising-targeting	persistent	1 year	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Advertising & Targeting".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress Plugin. The cookie is used to remember the user consent for the cookies under the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress Plugin. The cookie is used to remember the user consent for the cookies under the category "Performance".
PHPSESSID	session	1 year	This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
viewed_cookie_policy	persistent	1 year	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
zmember_logged	session	1 year	This session cookie is served by our membership/subscription system and controls whether you are able to see content which is only available to logged in users.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
advanced_ads_browser_width	persistent	1 month	This cookie is set by Advanced Ads and measures the browser width.
advanced_ads_page_impressions	persistent	2 years	This cookie is set by Advanced Ads and measures the number of previous page impressions.
advanced_ads_pro_server_info	persistent	1 month	This cookie is set by Advanced Ads and sets geo-location, user role and user capabilities. It is used by cache busting in Advanced Ads Pro when the appropriate visitor conditions are used.
advanced_ads_pro_visitor_referrer	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by Advanced Ads and sets the referrer URL.
bscookie	persistent	2 years	This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by LinkedIn share Buttons and ad tags.
IDE	persistent	2 years	This cookie is set by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
li_sugr	persistent	3 months	This cookie is set by LinkedIn and is used for tracking.
UserMatchHistory	persistent	1 month	This cookie is set by Linkedin and is used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	persistent	5 months	This cookie is set by YouTube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
bcookie	persistent	2 years	This cookie is set by LinkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
GPS	persistent	30 minutes	This cookie is set by YouTube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location
lang	session	1 year	This cookie is set by LinkedIn and is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
lidc	persistent	1 day	This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.
lissc	persistent	11 months	This cookie is set by LinkedIn share Buttons and ad tags.
vuid	persistent	2 years	We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play, Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the video to play and to see how long a viewer has watched the video. This cookie does not track individuals.
wow.anonymousId	persistent	2 years	This cookie is set by Spotler and tracks an anonymous visitor ID.
wow.schedule	persistent	20 minutes	This cookie is set by Spotler and enables it to track the Load Balance Session Queue.
wow.session	persistent	20 minutes	This cookie is set by Spotler to track the Internet Information Services (IIS) session state.
wow.utmvalues	persistent	20 minutes	This cookie is set by Spotler and stores the UTM values for the session. UTM values are specific text strings that are appended to URLs that allow Communigator to track the URLs and the UTM values when they get clicked on.
_ga	persistent	2 years	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. It stores information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat	persistent	1 minute	This cookies is set by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
_gid	persistent	1 day	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
cf_ob_info	persistent	1 minute	This cookie is set by Cloudflare content delivery network and, in conjunction with the cookie 'cf_use_ob', is used to determine whether it should continue serving “Always Online” until the cookie expires.
cf_use_ob	persistent	1 minute	This cookie is set by Cloudflare content delivery network and is used to determine whether it should continue serving “Always Online” until the cookie expires.
free_subscription_only	session	1 year	This session cookie is served by our membership/subscription system and controls which types of content you are able to access.
ls_smartpush	persistent	1 month	This cookie is set by Litespeed Server and allows the server to store settings to help improve performance of the site.
one_signal_sdk_db	persistent	Until cleared	This cookie is set by OneSignal push notifications and is used for storing user preferences in connection with their notification permission status.
YSC	session	1 year	This cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

Recommended

Prostate cancer