Prostate Cancer Growth Delayed By Up To 8 Years By Just 4 Months Of Hormone Therapy

Researchers report that just four months of hormonal therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed cancer growth by as much as eight years - especially the development of bone metastases - and increased survival in older men with potentially aggressive prostate cancer. This “neoadjuvant” hormonal therapy may allow men most at risk of developing bone metastases avoid long-term hormonal therapy later on. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Endocrinology on January 3rd, 2008