When we use androgen deprivation therapy, we are lowering testosterone levels typically by turning off the testes from making testosterone. This starves cancer cells, causing them to shut down, ...

Dose-escalated radiotherapy (RT) with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is a standard definitive treatment of localized prostate cancer (LPCa). The optimal sequencing of these therapies is unclear.

A recent trial reveals metformin does not enhance survival in metastatic prostate cancer but offers significant metabolic ...

So when my urologist said in 2019 that my PSA test showed the most aggressive form of prostate cancer, I was not prepared. I was 68, and my annual tests had always been normal. Soon I embarked on a ...

Androgen deprivation therapy is commonly used to treat prostate cancer, often on an open-ended basis for therapy of advanced prostate cancer. It is estimated that 44 percent of men with prostate ...

Prostate cancer ranks high among male mortality causes worldwide. In this article, Sandy Srinivas, MD, discusses androgen deprivation therapy as a treatment for advanced prostate cancer and ...

Adding androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSIs) to standard androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) increases the risks of falls and fractures among men with advanced and metastatic prostate ...

I am Sandy Srinivas and I'm the host of the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on prostate cancer. Today we want to talk about bone health and survivorship with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Male hormones, including testosterone, are called androgens, and treatment to shut down male hormones is known as androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT. Almost all men initially respond, sometimes ...

It has been over 70 years since the initial description of prostate cancer androgen dependence by Huggins and Hodges leading to androgen deprivation becoming a mainstay treatment for the disease.