Hormone therapy may reduce overall survival in men with heart conditions
Friday, July 29th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »According to a new study just published online, adding hormone therapy to radiation therapy has been proven in randomized clinical trials to improve overall survival for men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. However, adding hormone therapy may reduce overall ...
Prostate hormones may up death rate
Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »U.S. researchers say adding hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer may reduce overall survival in men with pre-existing heart conditions. For men with pre-existing heart conditions and high-risk prostate cancer, the study found that by five years, 31.8 percent of the ...
New pathway to potential therapies for advanced prostate cancer discovered
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have narrowed the potential drug targets for advanced prostate cancer by demonstrating that late-stage tumors are driven by a different hormonal pathway than was thought previously. The general assumption is that the tumor accelerates through ...
Early-stage prostate cancer can benefit from short-term ADT, radiation therapy
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy: ADT) given in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same ...
Certain prostate cancers can resist androgen deprivation therapy
Friday, June 17th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A recent study at study at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, concluded that certain prostate cancers can resist androgen deprivation therapy by activating an alternate pathway to drive its growth. Researchers found that when a common type of prostate cancer was ...
Targeted cancer therapy kills prostate tumor cells
Monday, June 6th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A new study at the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati.finds a new targeted therapy for prostate cancer halts tumor growth in animals with advanced prostate cancer that is resistant to hormone therapy. Men with prostate cancer that ...
Bone drug delays the spread of tumor in prostate cancer resistant to ADT
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is an important option in the treatment of prostate cancer. ADT slows or stops prostate cancer growth by reducing the exposure of the prostate to testosterone. Eventually, however, prostate cancer can become resistant to ADT. This ...
Obesity associated to worsening prostate cancer, even with hormone therapy
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Researchers from Duke University Medical Center explained at the American Urological Association annual Meeting yesterday that obese patients with prostate cancer have a much higher risk of the cancer growing and spreading, even with hormone therapy, compared to other prostate ...
Intermittent vs. continuous androgen deprivation therapy
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A new article offers expert perspective on the relative merits of intermittent and continuous androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of men with metastatic prostate cancer or recurrence of disease following first- or second-line treatment. Researchers concluded that intermittent ADT is ...
Testosterone therapy for prostate cancer should be re-evaluated
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »According to a study published in the April edition of The Journal of Urology, testosterone therapy should be reevaluated as a treatment option for men with low-risk and untreated prostate cancer. For many decades it had been believed that a history ...