Hormone therapy can help patients with prostate cancer
November 2nd, 2009 Posted in hormone therapyA research group reported Monday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting, in Chicago that a brief course of hormone-blocking therapy can provide small benefits to a specific group of men who get radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
According to a a long-running study, ten-year survival was 62 percent in men with cancers graded as intermediate risk who got treatment that blocked their male hormone activity in addition to radiation therapy, compared to 57 percent of those who got radiation therapy alone.
When biopsies were taken from men in the group, no traces of cancer were found in 78 percent of those having combined hormone-radiation therapy, compared to 60 percent of those who got radiation therapy alone.