medwireNews: Intermittent androgen deprivation is as effective as continuous therapy for men with rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after primary or salvage radiotherapy, say researchers who believe the break from treatment improves quality of life. Overall survival did not significantly ...
Researchers are also looking at "intermittent therapy," starting and stopping hormone treatment for months at a time. The big advantage is that men could go off therapy temporarily and thus be free of the side effects. Early study results have been promising. Hormone therapy for prostate cancer ...
If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you may be offered hormone therapy to treat it. Increasingly, hormone therapy is the treatment of choice, rather than surgery. Surgery to reduce hormone levels may only be offered if the cancer has spread to other areas or is...
and given the often finite durations of hormone therapy used withradiation therapy, relugolix is a very attractive treatment option for these men. Dr. Spratt's research not only underscores the importance of advancing combinatorial therapeutic approaches to managing prostate cancer...
(HealthDay)—Hormone therapy for prostate cancer might dramatically increase a man's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a large-scale analysis of health data suggests.
Immediate hormonal therapy may also be advantageous in advanced local/regional disease when it is the primary treatment contemplated (i.e., without any definitive curative therapy to the prostate), although not all studies show this. Adjuvant hormonal therapy has significantly improved survival in ...
It has been known for more than two centuries that the growth of the normal prostate and its malignancies is dependent upon hormonal function [9, 26, 68]. More recently, the application of this knowledge to the management of advanced prostate cancer has been rationalized, building upon the ...
Prostate cancer patients who receive hormone treatments before undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) do not have increased side effects compared with those not receiving hormone therapy before radiation, according to a new study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology...
Neoadjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for prostate cancer The purpose of the present study was to examine the outcome profiles of a large number of patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the prostate fol... AR Zlotta,CC Schulman - 《World Journal of Urology》 被引量: 50发表: 2000...
Prostate Cancer:There are a number of treatment options for prostate cancer, including chemotherapy, surgery, targeted radiotherapy and hormone therapy. Recent studies have suggested that for men over a certain age, no treatment may be the best option....