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High Dose Testosterone as a treatment for the AR-V7 Blocking of Xtandi and Zytiga

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Good news for guys whose genes like to party...looks like if you have Wild-Type AR Genes you have a much better response to Xtandi and Zytiga.

Gus

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Interesting article, I saved in Word format it to my collection of prostate cancer articles.

Thanks,

Mike

Johns Hopkins. Dr Antonarakis.

Many many interesting and over the horizon things to say.

Lots of new nouns. He mentions the Royal Marsden (hospital) in London.

Thanks for the post!

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John Hopkins does genetic testing to see what treatments are best. Other hospitals are also doing it.

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