If the cancer comes back or gets worse, you may need to start treatment again. Physical Health The physical effects of hormone therapy for prostate cancer can impact your daily life. Cancer treatment affects people in different ways, so you may not have every side effect. You may notice: Ho...
Cancer of ProstateHormone therapyThis paper summarises the lectures held at a symposium during the European Association of Urology congress in March 2008 in Milan, Italy. Topics such as (neo)adjuvant and intermittent hormone therapy and the importance of shared medical decision making were discussed....
There are two basic kinds of hormone therapy for prostate cancer. One class of drugs stops the body from making certain hormones. The other allows the body to make these hormones, but prevents them from attaching to the cancer cells. Some doctors start treatment with both drugs in an effort...
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...
Fargo agreed. "I don't think any doctors are going to make different decisions based on this single study," he said. "If your doctor has put you on this medication for yourprostate cancertreatment, you should continue it. Consult with your physician, but don't stop taking your medication...
Future Prospects for Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Analogues in Prostate Cancer Treatment Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analogues play a pivotal role in hormonal therapy regimens for the treatment of prostate cancer. Hormonal ther... H Akaza - 《Pharmacology》 被引量: 40发表: ...
Objective:To compare the proportion of patients choosing surgical versus medical castration to treat prostate cancer, before and after the National Health Fund (NHF) of Jamaica began to subsidize hormone therapy. Methods:A retrospective review was performed at the University Hospital of the West Indies...
Androgen deprivation therapy is a powerful tool against prostatecancer, and more and more men are opting for the treatment as a growing array of hormone-based therapies become available. But it comes with a cost. Suppressing male hormones, including testosterone, that fuel cancer growth also means...
At the present time in Japan, the androgen ablation therapy, such as the surgical castration, estrogen therapy, antiandrogen therapy and LHRH agonist therapy, is mainly used for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer as well as for early prostate cancer. Ten to twenty percent of advanced pros...
INTERMITTENT ANDROGEN SUPPRESSION IN THE TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER: AN UPDATE OF THE VANCOUVER EXPERIENCE.: 167 ObjectiveIntermittent androgen suppression (IAS) is a feasible treatment for advanced prostate cancer (CaP). We review the long-term follow-up of an IAS cohort.Methods106 men with a ...