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email article Black men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) plus prednisone had similar survival outcomes but more toxicity compared with white men, a multicenter prospective study showed. Median radiographic progression-free survival (PFS), the study's primary outcome, was similar between the two groups, at 16.6 and 16.8 months for the Black and white patients, respectively, reported Daniel George, MD, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues. And median overall survival was nearly ide...

Study suggests new avenues for treating Black patients who disproportionately die of prostate cancer A study designed to enroll an equal number of Black and white men with advanced prostate cancer confirms key findings that have been evident in retrospective analyses and suggest potential new avenues for treating Black patients who disproportionately die of the disease. Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute enrolled 50 Black and 50 white men with advanced prostate cancer to test whether there were outcome differences on treatment with the hormone therapy abiraterone acetate plus the steroid pr...

 E-Mail DURHAM, N.C. - A study designed to enroll an equal number of Black and white men with advanced prostate cancer confirms key findings that have been evident in retrospective analyses and suggest potential new avenues for treating Black patients who disproportionately die of the disease. Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute enrolled 50 Black and 50 white men with advanced prostate cancer to test whether there were outcome differences on treatment with the hormone therapy abiraterone acetate plus the steroid prednisone. In retrospective data reviews, the Duke researchers had previously ...

Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent WELLFLEET — Winners of the second annual Wellfleet Youth Film Festival have been chosen, but you’ll have to wait a few more days to find out who they are. “We wanted to give the feeling that this is a festival you have to attend,” Wellfleet Preservation Hall Managing Director Vanessa Downing said. From the beginning Downing envisioned the youth film event with all the trappings of a traditional film festival: awards, interviews, a red carpet and more. But so far the COVID-19 virus threat has put a crimp in those plans. Like last year the festiv...

Former Penn State football wide receiver TJ Jones is heading down south to Birmingham, Alabama. The former three-star recruit announced Monday he’s transferring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he’ll play for Bill Clark’s Blazers. Can’t afford to take a lose again, I know the feeling… The Lake City, Florida native arrived in Happy Valley in 2019, redshirting his true freshman season and only appearing in the Purdue game. He appeared in seven games during Penn State’s 2020 campaign but did not register a reception. Jones was listed as a third-string receiver behind...