Tag archive of prostate cancer

Afinitor for prostate cancer

Afinitor s is currently in clinical trials for prostate cancer and only preliminary information is available.  For example, it is in the phase II study: Everolimus as First-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Prostate Cancer,  NCT00976755. Several studies have been performed and published.  A phase II study (Templeton et al., 2011) investigating the activity of everolimus 10mg/daily as first-line treatment found that in 37 enrolled patients,

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Oxycodone – pro

Oxycodone is a full opioid agonist with no antagonist properties whose principal therapeutic action is analgesia. It has an affinity for kappa, mu and delta opiate receptors in the brain and spinal cord. Oxycodone is similar to morphine in its action. Other pharmacological actions of oxycodone are in the CNS (respiratory depression, antitussive, anxiolytic, sedative and miosis), smooth muscle (constipation, reduction in gastric, biliary and pancreatic

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