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Testosterone Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Feeling Better while Defeating Cancer

Although there are now many new treatments for advanced prostate cancer, hormone therapy (ADT) has remained the standard of care for the last 70 years. While hormone therapy can provide pain relief, it is never curative. Long-term hormone therapy produces decreased quality of life. Men treated with hormone therapy have weight gain, experience impotence, decreased [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:49:35-04:00August 5th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, Drugs & Treatments, Hormone Therapy, How We Live, Prostate Ponderings, Research, Start A Cure, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Testosterone Therapy Produces Mixed Results in Post-Surgical Men with Prostate Cancer

Many men, after they have had a radical prostatectomy, find that their testosterone levels are low and are desirous of supplementing their testosterone. (This low level of testosterone is not a result of the surgery). One way of supplementing androgens is by transdermal testosterone-replacement therapy (TRT), but TRT also has the undesirable effect of increasing [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:49:40-04:00July 19th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Bio Chemical Recurrence, biomarkers, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, Hormone Therapy, Uncategorized|1 Comment