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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - April 21, 2016) - Solid tumors are typically managed with surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiation and biologics, but it's the secondary tumor mass, the metastasis, that kills patients. Dr. Stuart Holden of the UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology understands the importance of targeting metastatic disease, which is driven by different genetic factors than the primary tumor from which it arose -- a fact that oncologists are just now coming to grips with. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Dr. Holden describes an essential target in aggressive prostate cancers, and a drug with the potential to address that target and extend the lives of thousands of men.

Included in this interview is: Arno Therapeutics Inc. (OTCQB: ARNI).

The Life Sciences Report : You've worked on the front lines of prostate cancer for more than 36 years. What is the most dramatic change you've seen?

Stuart Holden: I don't know if it's the most dramatic, but I would say the most game-changing was the development of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) assay. It was developed academically around 1977, and it was a true early biotechnology story. It took until the mid- or late 1980s before the PSA started creeping into routine clinical practice. It was a huge game changer in the sense that maybe 10% of my patient population was devoted to prostate cancer patients before the PSA assay, but since its introduction, I would say 80% of my patients fall into that category. I specialize in that area as a genitourinary oncologist, so my experience is a little biased, but that's the way it is today.

The PSA has been both heralded and demonized. It's been used properly and misused. But during the PSA era, the death rate from prostate cancer has gone down 40%. The PSA has also led to over diagnosis and overtreatment -- all of that is true. But at the end of the day, PSA is still the best biomarker in clinical utilization. I believe the single greatest reason for that reduction in deaths was…

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