METHOD OF TREATING PROSTATE CANCER WITH USING PROLONGED PRODRUG OF OCTREOTIDE ACCOMPANYING SURGICAL OR DRUG-INDUCED CASTRATION

摘要

FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to oncourology, and can be used in the non-surgical treatment of the patients suffering early stages of prostate malignant tumour. A method of treating prostate cancer with using prolonged prodrug of octreotide accompanying surgical or drug-induced castration involves a) measuring pre-therapeutic prostate-specific antigen; b) measuring pre-therapeutic blood plasma chromogranin A; c) selecting the patients having high blood chromogranin A of more than 3 nmol/l; d) conducting a therapy with prolonged prodrug of octreotide in a combination with dexamethasone in the selected patients; e) controlling the prostate-specific antigen variation every month and monitoring a decrease thereof in the patients by measuring it intra-therapeutically according to the stage d); the therapeutic efficacy according to the stage d) is evaluated by a therapeutic response, which is accompanied by maximum decrease of the prostate-specific antigen.EFFECT: invention enables providing the higher therapeutic efficacy in the patients suffering prostate cancer at the different stages.3 cl, 1 tbl, 5 ex