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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 5 3:55pm | Replies (102)

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@mrlucky200abc

@gbear1953 Thank you for the best wishes. I also appreciate your story. What is weird about prostate cancer is young people with a bunch of testosterone don't get prostate cancer. It seems like people lose testosterone as they get older and those are the people who get prostate cancer. Then we treat it by taking testosterone away. It almost feels opposite of what we should be doing. I will read more about BAT therapy for this reason. Stay healthy and thanks for reaching out!

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Thank you this is a welcome reaction because so many people are still entrenched with the old school paradigm of "Gas on fire" On another forum folk were almost rude with their comments nearly calling me crazy for taking testosterone.
Even so I would suggest trying that forum because they have a great deal of knowledge on Pca and great stories of recovery and treatments.
It is Healingwell forum prostate cancer part.
If you go there my handle is either "Billypilgram" or "The swan" I forget which

Glen AKA The Swan or Billypilgram lol

"What is weird about prostate cancer is young people with a bunch of testosterone don't get prostate cancer."

I understand the confusion, but it make sense when you think about it. Testosterone doesn't cause prostate cancer; it's just once you have prostate cancer, the cells feed on it.

As we get older and our cells keep dividing, we have more and more chance for mutations to slip in, and sometimes those mutations are cancerous. For some reason, cancerous mutations are especially common in breasts and ovaries for women, and in the prostate and testes for men.

Starving the prostate cancer cells of testosterone can slow them down or stop them completely. We're very lucky there: people with most other types of serious cancer don't have access to such a (relatively) simple treatment option.