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Men with advanced prostate cancer can take highly targeted hormone therapies at home.
Instead of coming into hospital for chemotherapy, NHS England says.
It will relieve pressure on NHS, helps cancer treatments to continue amidst pandemic.
Drugs are also smarter, kinder treatments and could extend the lives of many more patients.
Enzalutamide blocks effect of testosterone on prostate-cancer cells, prevents growing.
Patients intolerant to this will be given abiraterone, which stops testosterone production.
Doctors can now prescribe them when a patient is first diagnosed.
Unlike chemotherapy, the two drugs have no significant effects on patients' immune system.
"It will greatly lower the risk of exposing vulnerable patients to the coronavirus."
"Just one example of how we are adapting our approach to help thousands of cancer patients."
