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New approach regarding androgen deprivation therapy

There is an increasing belief among at least some opinion-leaders in the prostate cancer treatment community that androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been and still is being significantly overused.

Obviously every individual patient has to make his own decision about his therapy in close collaboration with his physicians. A new guideline would simply ask patients and their physicians to remember a relatively short list of facts when thinking about the timing of hormone therapy: [ reaf more ]