Prostate News Archive
10-Jul-2008
Hormone Therapy Shows Little Benefit Against Prostate Cancer (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
TUESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- An increasingly common therapy used for localized prostate cancer may not bestow any survival benefits on the patient beyond those seen with a simple "wait-and-see" approach. Prostate hormone therapy may not work (UPI)
PISCATAWAY, N.J., July 9 (UPI) -- Androgen deprivation therapy, which shuts off male hormones known to promote prostate cancer, doesn't increase survival in older men, U.S. researchers say. Common Prostate Cancer Therapy Questioned (CBS News)
A new study suggests that by itself, a common prostate-cancer therapy that shuts off male hormones does not up survival in older men with early-stage cancer.
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