In men with less aggressive tumors that may be curable without extensive treatment, p27 levels are much higher, he said.
This is a highly aggressive tumour, with a median survival of 7.5 months.
You are a young woman with a large aggressive tumor.
But in patients with less aggressive tumors, the vaccine made a statistically significant difference.
But Dendreon said the drug did work in a subset of patients with less aggressive tumors.
The company is now conducting a second trial only on patients with less aggressive tumors.
The three-year results announced yesterday showed the survival benefit for the trial as a whole, not just those with less aggressive tumors.
This association was not found to be linear for aggressive tumors.
Black men were more likely to have aggressive tumors and recurrences.
In general, younger patients tend to have more aggressive tumors.