Guidelines scrapped that said men must wait for chemotherapy drug until hormone-based treatments had stopped workingThe NHS has rapidly-tracked a drug that can extend the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer by more than a year following clinical studies, and it can now be prescribed immediately.
The announcement scraps the previous guidelines that patients had to wait for the chemotherapy drug docetaxel until existing hormone-based treatments had stopped working.
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Source: theguardian.com