Researchers Explain How Prostate Cancer Can Survive Androgen Blockade

A research from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine shows that prostate cancer cells can synthesize androgens through an alternative pathway that does not rely on CYP17A1, the enzyme at the core of virtually all modern androgen deprivation strategies. Instead of flowing through the classical cholesterol → pregnenolone […]

Triaptosis: a New Way to Kill Cancer Using Menadione

A new form of cell death called triaptosis is starting to attract attention as a potential way to treat hard‑to‑kill cancers. The idea behind it is quite simple: instead of trying to push tumor cells into the classic death routes that many of them have already learned to escape, triaptosis hits them somewhere they are […]

CBPD‑409, an Oral CBP/p300 Degrader for Advanced Prostate Cancer

CBPD‑409 is an experimental, oral medicine designed to remove two helper proteins, CBP and p300, that prostate tumors use to turn cancer‑driving genes on. These proteins partner with the androgen receptor (AR), the key signal that fuels most prostate cancers, especially in the advanced, treatment‑resistant setting. By tagging CBP and p300 for destruction, a strategy […]

AB‑3028, a Dual‑antigen AND‑gated, TGF‑β–resistant CAR T Therapy

AB-3028 represents a next-generation approach to solid-tumor CAR T therapy tailored to the unique challenges of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. CAR T cells, transformative in hematologic malignancies, have struggled in solid tumors due to heterogeneous antigen expression, on-target off-tumor risks, suppressive cytokines like TGF-β, and chronic stimulation that drives exhaustion. AB-3028 was engineered to counter […]

A New Weak Spot in Prostate Cancer: Disarming the Androgen Signal by Targeting PTGES3

A new study shows, published on Nature, that a little-known protein called PTGES3 helps prostate cancer cells keep using male hormone signals to grow, even when treatments are trying to shut those signals down. Blocking this helper protein cut off the cancer’s fuel supply in lab tests and slowed tumors in mice, pointing to a […]

News pre|CISION Platform: Delivering Two Complementary Therapies from One Molecule

A novel dual payload peptide drug conjugate technology, known as the pre|CISION® platform, represents an advance in oncology by delivering two complementary anticancer therapies from a single molecule. This approach leverages the fibroblast activation protein (FAP), which is selectively present in the tumor microenvironment, especially in advanced prostate cancer such as castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). […]

Helicon Degraders Show a New Path in Prostate Cancer Therapy

In one of the most compelling advances for prostate cancer biology in recent years, a novel peptide-based degrader has achieved potent, selective elimination of the transcription factor ERG, an oncogenic driver long considered unreachable by medicinal chemistry. The discovery has upended conventional views on druggability in TMPRSS2–ERG fusion–positive prostate cancers, which comprise nearly half of […]

KLS-3021: a Promising Oncolytic Virus for Prostate Cancer

KLS-3021 is a novel oncolytic virus therapy developed for the treatment of prostate cancer. It employs a recombinant vaccinia virus engineered to selectively infect and destroy cancer cells while activating the immune system to target tumors more effectively. The virus carries three therapeutic genes: PH-20, which degrades the extracellular matrix to facilitate viral spread and […]

Rapid Genome Sequencing Redefines Clinical Readiness

A collaboration between Broad Clinical Labs, Roche Sequencing Solutions, and Boston Children’s Hospital has set a Guinness World Record for sequencing and analyzing a whole human genome in under four hours. The record, confirmed this month and documented in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that complete genomic workflows can be completed in less […]

Two-Pronged Drug Combination for Advanced Prostate Cancer: Fadraciclib Plus Ipatasertib (or Capivasertib)

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research in London have identified a combination therapy that may benefit up to 40 percent of men with advanced prostate cancer, particularly those whose tumors have become resistant to hormone therapies. This approach targets two proteins essential for cancer cell survival: MCL1 and AKT. Direct inhibition of MCL1 has […]