Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition

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Mark A. Moyad. Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition

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Promoting Wellness

Beyond Hormone

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Testosterone Levels There is some preliminary research to suggest that a patient who had an abnormally low testosterone level before receiving an LHRH medication or surgical removal of the testicles could have a more aggressive prostate cancer, and that it may be more difficult to treat. This is preliminary, but it does make some sense that such a cancer would be able to grow with less testosterone available, making LHRH medication possibly less effective. In other words, some of these cells may have found a way to survive without much testosterone.

Time from Initial Treatment to CRPC Diagnosis If you were treated for localized prostate cancer, and then it rapidly progressed to become HRPC, this could indicate a more aggressive cancer. However, if you were diagnosed and treated for localized prostate cancer, and many years later the disease came back, and several years after that it became HRPC, it would imply a slow, steady cancer that may have a better prognosis.

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