The invention provides methods and dosing regimens for safely and effectively treating androgen-dependent prostate cancer with a gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist without causing a testosterone spike and/or other side effect of GnRH agonist therapy such as a urinary tract infection, or ...
Prostate cancer cells rely on testosterone to help them grow. Hormone therapy, a treatment to stop your body from producing testosterone, is often used to shrink advanced prostate cancer and slow its growth. Therapy options include medications and surgery to remove the testicles. Prostate cancer tha...
In some men, prostate cancer cells becomeresistant to hormone therapy. They can grow in the low-testosterone environment created by treatment. Despite this, hormone therapy remains an important step in the process of dealing with recurrent and neglected diseases. It offers the possibility of alleviat...
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Novel non-steroidal antiandrogens have been investigated with promising results in castration-resistant prostate cancer. Beyond the safety profile specific to any individual compound, increased testosterone and 17β-estradiol levels are commonly observed during antiandrogen monotherapy, leading to gynecomastia...
leonuri, functions in hyperten- sion in male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and requires no conversion of testosterone to dihydrotes- tosterone87. To sum up, these results allow a clear discrimination of bioactive molecules in four different herbs according to the attributes that describe ...
Prostate cancer (PC) is a leading cause of death in older men. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is considered the standard-of-care for men with locally advanced disease. However, continuous androgen ablation is associated with acute and long-term adver
The more time that we can give people off of hormone therapy to have normalized testosterone levels goes a long way to making men feel generally physically better. I would’ve considered intermittent hormone therapy for this patient outside of just monitoring....
About 186,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States. The male hormones testosterone and dihydrotestosterone -- also known as androgens -- spur the growth of prostate cells, and drugs that block the receptors for these hormones are the most common treatment fo...
29.The delivery system of claim 19, wherein the delivery system is used to suppress tumor cell growth, treat prostate cancer, or both by itself or in combination with one or more chemotherapeutic agents, radiation therapy, surgical intervention, antibody therapy, Vitamin D, or any combinations ...