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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Patients with castration-resistant, metastatic prostate cancer can improve their survival time to a limited degree by treatment with


docetaxel, but the hunt is on for additional therapeutic strategies that can delay disease progression and further extend life expectancy among these individuals. A pair of recent randomized


placebo-controlled trials has shown apparent survival benefits following treatment with sipuleucel-T. This cancer vaccine is based on patient-derived peripheral blood monocytes that have


been activated by treatment with PA2024, a fusion of the tumor marker prostatic acid phosphatase with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Kantoff and co-workers have now


followed up on these trials with a larger-scale, double-blinded, placebo-controlled multicenter trial, described in an article in the _New England Journal of Medicine_. This is a preview of


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grant from AstraZeneca. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Prostate News. _Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis_ 13, 296–299 (2010).


https://doi.org/10.1038/pcan.2010.42 Download citation * Published: 11 November 2010 * Issue Date: December 2010 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/pcan.2010.42 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you


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