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Thanks for sharing that. Yes, it makes sense that if your personal risk of death or permanent incapacitation from heart disease, diabetes, or osteoporosis due to testosterone deprivation is greater than your immediate risk from castrate-sensitive prostate cancer, you and your medical team might choose to go with testosterone replacement as the lesser of two evils. Not a great choice to be forced into, though. 😕
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Just another point of view from a recent interview (1/25) of Dr. Khera who treats prostate cancer patients and individualizes TRT:
"The second paper [concerns data from a recent study by Flores et al]. This is a large series looking at almost 5200 [patients] who underwent radical prostatectomy [RP] and had groups grade 1 to 3 on RP pathology, of which 198 patients received testosterone therapy. These authors found there was no difference in biochemical recurrence in men receiving testosterone vs those men not receiving testosterone after radical prostatectomy. They also noticed that the men who received testosterone had a much lower risk of biochemical recurrence, although it was not statistically significant."
Research regarding TRT in men with a history of prostate cancer is ongoing.