More men with limited life expectancy and certain localized prostate cancers have received definitive treatment over the past ...

New research from the IU School of Medicine found a discovery that could lead to new treatments for prostate cancer. The ...

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer has come a long way in the past few decades. Not so long ago, the only hormonal treatment for this disease was drastic: an orchiectomy, the surgical removal of ...

Sep. 4, 2024 — A treatment paradox has recently come to light in prostate cancer: blocking testosterone production halts tumor growth in early disease, while elevating the hormone can delay ...

Pfitzenmaier and Altwein in their very readable article explain the advantage of hormone therapy in locally advanced prostate cancer with an unfavourable Gleason score. Further, they show in a ...

We have hormone ... treatments up along with testosterone decrease, that men can have increases of more than two years in their disease trajectory and life expectancy. For advanced prostate ...

The intended therapeutic effect of gonadotropin-releasing-hormone (GnRH) agonists is hypogonadism, which is a leading cause of osteoporosis in men. Observations are consistent with this effect ...

A study to develop "tailored treatments" for prostate cancer sufferers ... best suited to an individual man's cancer, they hope to significantly extend life expectancy. They predict it has the ...

It has seen patients take abiraterone, which stops the body producing the hormone testosterone, in combination with standard treatment for locally advanced prostate cancer. Prostate cancer ...

Radiation Therapy: High dose radiation is also used for a cureity treatment in localized prostate cancer. Hormonal Therapy: Medications that lower hormone levels, which can stimulate tumor growth ...

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