International Scholarly Research Notices / 2012 / Article / Tab 1 / Clinical Study
Low-Dose Chemotherapy with Insulin (Insulin Potentiation Therapy) in Combination with Hormone Therapy for Treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the treated patients.
Clinical parameters Group A Group B Total number of patients 8 8 Age Median 64 66 Range 56–76 53–73 Karnovsky performance scale (mean) Median 68 74 Range 50–80 60–90 Beretta score before treatment Median 24 24 Range 10–42 6–33 Glison score 4 1 0 5 1 1 6 0 1 7 2 1 8 1 0 9 3 3 Unknown 0 2 Tumor stage Stage III 0 0 Stage IV 8 8 Extend of disease (nr.) With local metastases 3 (8) 3 (8) With distant metastases 7 (8) 7 ( 8) Previous therapy Surgical orchiectomy 6 (8) 5 (8) Antiandrogens 8 (8) 7 (8) Palliative radiotherapy 4 (8) 0 PSA(ng/mL) Median 389,6 1511,2 Range 63,3–1320 17,16–8395 Al. phosphatase mg/mL Median 1673 1120 Range 246–4286 253–5264