When we use androgen deprivation therapy, we are lowering testosterone levels typically by turning off the testes from making testosterone. This starves cancer cells, causing them to shut down, ...

Androgen deprivation therapy is commonly used to treat prostate cancer, often on an open-ended basis for therapy of advanced prostate cancer. It is estimated that 44 percent of men with prostate ...

I expected that becoming cancer-free would mean getting my old life back. Nothing could be further from the truth.

"Outside of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, both NCCN and ASCO do note that an osteoclast inhibitor (at ...

It has been over 70 years since the initial description of prostate cancer androgen dependence by Huggins and Hodges leading to androgen deprivation becoming a mainstay treatment for the disease.

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer is associated with decreased bone mineral density (BMD) in patients. This decreased BMD can lead to an increased risk of fractures and ...

I am Sandy Srinivas and I'm the host of the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on prostate cancer. Today we want to talk about bone health and survivorship with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Effectiveness of Androgen-Deprivation Therapy and Radiotherapy for Older Men With Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer Authors: Justin E. Bekelman [email protected], Nandita Mitra, Elizabeth A.

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is aimed at reducing or eliminating the amount of testosterone in your body to slow or stop prostate cancer cells from growing and multiplying. Hormone therapy ...

Therapeutic Rationale Androgens can drive prostate cancer growth, thus providing the rationale for using deprivation of androgens as a first line of treatment for prostate cancer. Unfortunately ...

"Androgen-deprivation therapy is commonly used to treat patients whose prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate. While most men initially respond to this therapy, the cancer nearly always ...