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Use It or Lose It: How important is it to be proactive about ED?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Nov 17, 2025 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
You are right. Chemical castration is rarely explained or used to inform the hormone patient of the likely side effects. Web sites say that hormone drugs might affect your libido when they know full well that 90% of the men over 80 will never have another erection and 10% will commit suicide.
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@pesquallie no doubt ADT is associated with a higher degree of depression (especially, the literature suggests, affecting older men who are unmarried) and the risk of suicide is increased. Can you share your source for the 10% suicide rate you quote, as it seems much higher than any of the journal reviews I have examined.
And if depression accompanies chemical castration, then is not a more focused approach to mental health issues a requirement of PC therapy? Difficult as it may be to tolerate, ADT is life-saving in the management of PC.
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@pesquallie your last comment is sad but true, for some men life is over