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Episode 131: Christopher Logothetis discusses advances in prostate cancer therapies

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The Other Features of Prostate Cancer

Cemotherapy was first cured in 19 56 when metho trexate was used to treat a rare tumor that's called coria carsonoma. Since then, cimotherapy drugs have been used to treat mixed germ cell tumors and have led to dramatically improved survivorship among patients with metostatic germ cell tumors. In order for it to become lethal, the cancer cell had to interact with bone in a way that it then gained properties to go to other sites. So one need to rethink the cancer that went to b one as a new malignancy that acquired properties in this distant site that allowed it to grow. That led us to operate on these patients where they were expanding rather

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