Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer Slows Its Progress

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



If you have been diagnosed for prostate cancer, your doctor will devise a prostate cancer treatment strategy intended to raise the chances of eradicating the disease from your system. You will receive plenty of prostate cancer information, in the hope that you will adopt lifestyle changes to support the physician’s interventions.

If you undergo treatment for prostate cancer your doctor will take any or combinations of the following basic approaches: surgery, radiation therapy and hormone therapy. The least invasive mode on your system is hormone therapy for prostate cancer. Hormone therapy is a form of prostate cancer treatment designed to reduce the male hormones in your body, which hopefully will cause hormone-sensitive prostate cancer cells to stop growing or even shrink.

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may be of different modes. As a primary treatment for prostate cancer, hormone therapy may be employed if you’re older and are not fit for surgery or radiation therapy and, for your personal reasons, are not interested in watchful waiting.

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may also be used as a secondary treatment. If your doctor’s diagnosis is that the prostate cancer has just started to spread into other parts of your body, hormone therapy is still a viable option. If you have just undergone radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy, you’ll receive hormone therapy to slow down growth of your recurrent cancer.

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is also used for a period of time before your doctor implements radical surgery or radiation therapy. The purpose is to shrink your prostate gland and make the procedure easier to perform. This preparatory treatment for prostate cancer is also known as neoadjuvant therapy. Be aware that the therapy really affects the progression rate or survival. However, there is measurable evidence that cancer cells are harder to detect after three months’ therapy.


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