Research shows that hormone therapy for prostate cancer may lead to problems with short-term memory, language, thinking, and concentration. But these problems are usually mild. Researchers are still studying the effect of hormone therapy on the brain. When you stop taking hormone therapy, emotional...
Hormone therapy is medicine used to decrease testosterone (male hormone) levels. Chemotherapy is medicine used to shrink or kill cancer cells. It is usually given IV. Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells with high-energy x-ray beams. You may receive radiation therapy from outside ...
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). cannot grow or survive without , which include and other male hormones. Hormone therapy decreases the amount of androgens in a man's body. Reducing androgens can slow the growth of the cancer and even ...
Hormone therapy alone cannot cure prostate cancer but can help slow down its progression, relieve symptoms and reduce the chances of cancerous cells returning. Hormone therapy options include medications to stop testosterone production or stop testosterone from reaching cancer cells, or surgical removal ...
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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 ...
"Cancer cells eventually figure out how to survive, how to overcome a specific hormone therapy," he says. "But if we have enough types of drugs and can keep changing the hormone therapy, we might be able to keep the cancer cells in a state of confusion. We could change therapies before...
After failure of initial hormone therapy, various treatment options are available that may provide objective remissio... CN Sternberg,A Lanari - 《Current Opinion in Urology》 被引量: 3发表: 1996年 Advances in bio-immunotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer. checkpoint inhibitors, tumors,...
(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. Men who underwentandrogen deprivation therapy(ADT) for their prostate cancer had nearly twice the risk of Alzheimer's, when ...