Coronavirus: Prostate-cancer men swap chemo for precision drugs
Enzalutamide blocks the effect of the testosterone hormone on prostate-cancer cells, preventing them from growing.
Until now, in England and Wales, the drugs were available only to patients for whom other hormone therapy had stopped working, although abiraterone was recommended in Scotland as a first-line treatment earlier this year.Prof Nick James, of the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, who has led major trials into targeted prostate cancer drugs, said:"I'm pleased and relieved that many more men should now benefit from targeted hormone therapies right from when they are first diagnosed.
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