prostate-report.org

New hormone treatment may fight resistant prostate cancer

It was demonstrated that prostate tumors need testosterone to grow. By consequence, one treatment involves castration to combat the body’s processing of testosterone, possibly with additional drug treatment.

The problem is that there are castration-resistant prostate cancer forms. Though the treatment kills some cancer cells, others remain alive but dormant, the researchers explained. And these cells can re-grow and survive without as much testosterone, thus becoming castration-resistant. [ more about hormone treatment ]