Despite the inclusion of multiple agents within the prostate cancer treatment landscape, new treatment options are needed to address the unmet need for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Although prostate-specific membrane antigen is the only cell-surface target to yield clinical benefit in men with advanced prostate cancer, additional targets may further advance targeted immune, cytotoxic, radiopharmaceutical, and other tumor-directed therapies for these patients. Human kallikrein 2 (hK2) is a novel prostate-specific target with little to no expression in nonprostate tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: The combination of dutasteride and tamsulosin may be more effective for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia than either treatment alone. We report the results of three pharmacokinetics and tolerability studies, which used a dutasteride/tamsulosin HCl (0.5 mg/0.
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March 2014
Background: Dihydrotestosterone is the main androgen causative of androgenetic alopecia, a psychologically and physically harmful condition warranting medical treatment.
Objective: We sought to compare the efficacy and safety of dutasteride (type 1 and 2 5-alpha reductase inhibitor) with finasteride (type 2 5-alpha reductase inhibitor) and placebo in men with androgenetic alopecia.
Methods: Men aged 20 to 50 years with androgenetic alopecia were randomized to receive dutasteride (0.
New methods of manufacture have enabled the creation of novel dosage forms with unique rapid-dispersion properties. This study combines one such technique with a statistical experimental design to develop dosage forms from captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor used to treat cases of hypertensive emergency. The TheriForm process, a novel microfabrication technique, was used to build the dosage forms in a layer-by-layer fashion.
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