A Massage, Relaxing and Very Good for Your Health
Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles set out to see if there are any health benefits to be derived from a massage, or is a massage just relaxing to your muscles? […]
Combined Therapy – Using Second Line Therapy (Part 5 of a Series of Posts on Second Line Hormone Therapy)
All the drugs used as 2nd line hormone therapy are only partially effective. Only some individuals respond and receive any benefit from them, but there has been some recent research into combining the drugs. At the last American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Dr. Eric Small, M.D. presented a abstract about his recent experimentation of [...]
Sandostatin – A Second Line Hormone Therapy (Part 4 of a Series of Posts on Second Line Hormone Therapy)
Somastatin is a naturally occurring hormone that affects the levels of other hormone production in the body. Its most common drug use today is to treat giantism and acromegaley, a disease characterized by an over abundance of growth hormones. There is laboratory evidence that somastatin analogs such as octreotide acetate (Sandostatin/Sandoz) can affect the growth [...]
Leukine – A Second Line Hormone Therapy (Part 3 of a Series of Posts on Second Line Hormone Therapy)
Leukine, a granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), is a hormone therapy that does not have an effect on a man’s testosterone production. Leukine is used by many physicians who are knowledgeable about the value of second line hormone therapy. Leukine works by stimulating the white blood cells (both increasing the overall production of the white [...]
Estrogen – A Second Line Hormone Therapy (Part 2 of a Series of Posts on Second Line Hormone Therapy)
One of the earliest hormone therapies (ADT) given to men to treat prostate cancer was estrogen. Estrogen, commonly known as the female hormone, was used as an ADT treatment in the early 1950s. […]