I have written a fair amount over the life of this blog about the cognitive impairment that many of us experience when we are on an androgen blockade (ADT). I have share my experiences about getting lost on the NYC subway, forgetting where I was going and why I was going there. I also have [...]
So how long does it usually take for men undergoing hormone therapy (ADT) to progress from being hormone dependent to hormone independent? Clearly, we should always remember that this is a very individual, case-by-case time. However, there was a recent time analysis published in the February 2009 edition of Urology. These researchers found that after [...]
The Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, performed a retrospective study designed to evaluate the overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) in men receiving primary androgen-deprivation therapy (PADT) or salvage medical ADT (SADT) for prostate cancer. The study included men who were diagnosed and treated with ADT between July [...]
When I was on an active hormone blockade (ADT2) I suffered extensively from many of the usually reported morbidity issues (negative side effects). One of the side effects I dealt with was significant cognitive impairment. I live in New York City, was born in the city and have spent most of my life in the [...]
Not a very big surprise but androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) substantially increases the risk for cardiovascular and bone-related problems, as well as for diabetes, according to a review of the medical literature published online April 27 in the journal Cancer. At the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Lockwood G. Taylor wrote a review [...]