The inventor of Zytiga Professor Gerry Potter has received an award from Canadian cancer diagnostics company CARE Biotechnologies. Zytiga is now approved by Health Canada and is now available in Canadian pharmacies. It is licensed for post chemotherapy use after the drug docetaxel has failed. Professor Potter said on receiving the award "It is so frustarting that Zytiga is not licensed before chemotherapy afterall it is a far safer drug and should be used before chemotherapy is even thought of. Chemotherapy should be alast ditch event after Zytiga has failed not the other way round. Its about time that the FDA approved Zytiga before chemotherapy so that many more men can benefit from this treatment. I designed this drug to replace chemotherapy which is an outdated form of cancer treatment that causes serious side effects. Docetaxel is toxic to the liver, kidneys, and white blood cells so causes severe immunosuppresion. This is not good depleting the cancer patients immune system destrying the very cells that help in cancer recovery. So it really is a nonsense using those sorts of chemotherapy and its about time we abandoned that approach completely. Zytiga makes chemotherapy obsolete and so of course it should really be used as a first line therapy. I'm very please this drug is now benefiting prostate cancer patients in Canada"
Professsor Dan Burke made the award on behalf of CARE biotech, a company specialising in proteomic approaches to early cancer detection that resulted as a spin out from Professor Potter's research on the CYP1B1 and CYP17 enzymes.
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