UCSF Study Shows That An Herbal Therapy Reduces PSA Levels By Half In Men With Advanced Prost...( nd; how long the anti-cancer andPSA-lo...)

UCSF Study Shows That An Herbal Therapy Reduces PSA Levels By Half In Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

nd; how long the anti-cancer and PSA-lowering effects of PC-SPES lasts; what the short and long-term effects of the therapy are; and how declines in PSA correlate with other measures of anti-cancer activity such as changes in tumor imaging and scanning."

Other authors on the paper include Robert Bok, MD, clinical instructor of medicine; Michele Corry, UCSF RNP; Mark Frohlich, MD, UCSF clinical instructor of medicine; Hiroko Kameda, UCSF research assistant; W.K. Kelly, MD, urologist oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and David Reese, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of medicine. The PC SPES study is supported by the Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate (CaP CURE).

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Contact: Abby Sinnot
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