The trial involved 1, 608 patients followed for five years, and compared UFT to a standard chemotherapy regimen that must be infused slowly into patients' veins.

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Ms. Houle suffered a recurrence in 2011 and is now on another chemotherapy regimen, but keeps up her exercises at the hospital's medical fitness facility.

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The technology of immunotherapy, namely Provenge at this time, affords my patients 4 months increased MEDIAN (not average) survival time over the best known chemo regimen, without the morbidity of the side effects of chemotherapy.

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