Doctors excited about targeted prostate cancer therapy, but can't prescribe it yet
2024-07-06 from ctvnews.ca
Dale Cousins was thrilled when he saw his body scans from before and after a new prostate cancer treatment.
"(The doctor) said, 'Do you see any difference?'" the 79-year-old from Petrolia, Ont., recalled.
"I said, 'all these spots around my abdomen, they’re gone.'"
Cousins is part of a clinical trial of radioligand therapy, or RLT — a precise targeting of cancer cells with radiation given intravenously. Oncologists say RLT is poised to become a new "pillar" of cancer care, alongside surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. But unlike Cousins, prostate cancer patients who aren't in a clinical trial don't have free access to it.
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