New hope with prostate cancer treatment - Provenge
- This is a very good 3-minute video about Provenge, a new immuno therapy treatment.
- Provenge is a custom made vaccine made from the patient's blood.
- White blood cells are pulled from the patient's bloodand then sent to the makers of the vaccine, where prostate specific proteins are added to cells in order to train them to fight the cancer cells.
- Three days later that vaccine is slowly infused back into the patient.
- This process is repeated every two weeks for a total of three treaments.
- Initial studies found that provenge increased survival by about 4 months.
- There are studies underway to see if it can one day be a method of prevention / a vaccine against prostate cancer.
- At $93,000 the treatment is expensive.
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