Clinical Practice: Fighting the
Battle Against
Prostate Cancer on Two Fronts
The clinical physicians working at the VPC
play a pivotal role in the Center's work. As physicians, they provide care for patients
with prostate cancer, using every resource available to them. As clinical researchers,
they share problems and insights about the disease with basic scientists in the Center's
research laboratories.
If you can imagine the fight against all cancer as a war,
and the fight against prostate cancer as a battle, then the clinical trials that take
place at the Center are skirmishes against the enemy. By precisely addressing very
specific clinical questions, clinical trials reveal important information about the safety
and effectiveness of new diagnostic methods and treatment strategies.
Patients who volunteer their cooperation in the Center's
clinical trials avail themselves of the most advanced therapies possible. Their
participation also provides researchers with information to better treat future patients
and to develop future clinical trials. Clinical trial participants are unsung heroes in
the war against cancer.
Some trials study new ways to use radiation and hormone
therapy. Others investigate the use of antibodies to track and locate the spread of
metastatic cells throughout the patient's body. Still others involve investigational drugs
that may help interrupt and regulate the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.
Click
here for descriptions of our current clinical trials. |
