Tag: hormonal therapy
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MedWire News – Prostate Cancer – Endocrine and radiotherapy ‘standard care’ for locally advanced prostate cancer
Source Medwire News Adding local radiotherapy to endocrine treatment halves the 10-year prostate cancer-specific mortality in patients with locally advanced or high-risk local prostate cancer compared with endocrine treatment alone, researchers report. “In the light of these data, endocrine treatment plus radiotherapy should be the new standard,” Anders Widmark (Umeå University, Sweden) and team write…
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Hormonal therapy with radiation for prostate cancer
UroToday – Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Androgen Deprivation Followed by External-Beam Radiotherapy With 9 Months of Androgen Deprivation for Intermediate- to High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer Testosterone returned to normal in 69% of patients with a median time to recovery of 9 months. Testosterone returned to it baseline level after ADT in 37% with a…