Radical Prostatectomy and Clinical Research Trials

Radical prostatectomy and clinical research trials are bringing new solutions to prostate cancer surgery and therapy. Urology Specialists are involved in research and clinical trials for prostate cancer. Dr. Fernando Bianco and Dr. Edward Gheiler are constantly offering the newest clinical cancer research at the Florida Urology Center.

Radical prostatectomy and clinical research trials include combining several treatments to those that medically qualify. The National Cancer Institute has a database of ongoing clinical trials around the world. With over 150 ongoing prostate cancer trials progress is being made in our cancer treatment options. Some trials are new treatment options, other trials are new treatments to correct side effects of the cancer or side effects of the treatments themselves. Since every patient has their unique physiology and level of prostate cancer, our doctors will plan your treatment for the best outcome, by using all available means. Giving up is not an option.

Emerging technology is now brining the cost of a person’s complete genome within reach for everyone by 2014. Already personal exomes are available for the consumer. These personal genomes are giving us the ability to find out our susceptibility to prostate cancer, and which medications we may be allergic to, even what medications would work or not work on each individual.

Radical prostatectomy and clinical research trials are changing our surgical models by attacking each cancer cell and not harming healthy cells. Clinical trials have begun to use nanoparticles to find and destroy cancer cells and as they become available Urology Specialists will offer them to our patients. Nanoparticles include nanoshells, quantum dots, and dendrimers. Nanoshells are a gold or iron molecular sphere that surrounds molecules of silica. Attaching an antibody to the nanoshell helps send it to the prostate cancer cells. Once injected into the blood stream, millions of nanoshells will attach themselves to a cancer cell. Then an imaging device will show the doctor that the nanoshells are at the prostate cancer cells. Once the nanoshells are at the cancer site infrared light will be aimed at the prostate which then heats up the nano shells and destroys the cancer cells while the healthy prostate cells remain unaffected.

Dendrimers and quantum dots are other nanoparticles that are being tested to find their way into cancer cells, light them up under imaging devices, and then kill the cancer cells without damaging the healthy cells right next to them. Microscopic strips of RNA are being used to stop cancer cells by cancelling out important proteins that create new cancer cells, stopping the cancer from growing. That method is called RNA interference (iRNA). Gene therapy to boost the immune system so that it kills cancer is another tact that the emerging future of human genetic engineering is trying to accomplish. Stem cell technology for tissue regeneration is paving the way to repair damage created from cancer and ageing.

Radical prostatectomy and clinical research trials are available at the Urology Specialists Center. Set up an appointment online or call 305-822-7227.