Hormone Blockers Don’t Help Early Prostate Cancer
July 10th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapyHormone therapy blocks production of testosterone, which feeds cancer cells. Widely used hormone-blocking drugs failed to improve survival in older men with early prostate cancer that hasn’t spread, a study found.
In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who’d gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach.
The research appears in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association.