There is no convincing evidence that neo-adjuvant hormone therapy combined with radical prostatectomy provides long-term efficacy. Adjuvant hormone therapy with bicalutamide has shown a 42% reduction in the risk of disease progression compared to placebo, but long-term follow up is required to ...
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...
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...
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 in a more advanced stage.
Even if your cancer is so early you choose to “just watch and wait, you have the psychological side effects of waiting to see what happens with your cancer,” he says. More aggressive treatments, like surgery, beam radiation, brachytherapy or radioactive “seeds,” or hormone therapy, could...
The grade is a number that tells you how abnormal your cancer cells look under a microscope. The lower the grade, the more normal-looking your cancer cells are – and, in general, the more likely your cancer is slow-growing. Radiation, along with hormone therapy, might also be part of ...
(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.
Anastrozole is superior to tamoxifen as first-line therapy in hormone receptor positive advanced breast carcinoma : Results of two randomized trials design... BACKGROUND: Women with hormone-responsive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may respond to or have stable disease with a number of hormone ther...
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 ...
On 11 July 2024 By DanIn Hormone Therapy, Prostate Cancer, Radiation Therapy, Recurrence9 Comments To my regular readers, you may want to skip this post. This is a high-level update intended for my family and friends who don’t regularly follow this blog (gasp!), and it will be share...