injections, and implants -- that can give men the benefits of decreasing male hormone levels without irreversible surgery. "I think hormonal therapy has done wonders for men with prostate cancer ...

Hormone therapy can make a big difference for men with recurrent or metastatic prostate cancer. But it isn't ... Would you prefer to have injections every few months, or get an implant once ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fortunately, prostate cancer – even the severe type – is readily treatable. The group of doctors I am working with tell me ...

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 ...

The researchers found that prostate cancer cells are hardwired with a system that allows them to proliferate when the levels of testosterone are very low. But when hormone levels are elevated to ...

By blocking the enzyme poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), PARP inhibitors induce cancer cell death. Hormone Therapy: Traditional hormone therapy has been a mainstay of prostate cancer treatment ...

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 ...

Truqap showed improvement in radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in the trial, which enrolled 1,012 subjects with PTEN-deficient de novo metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC).