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Learned Something New Last Week
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 26 10:42am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
There are recent independent Harvard, Duke, and Swedish studies that say for aggressive prostate cancer some men benefit from a higher or normal level of testosterone. Duke is doing AI based research to determine what are the characteristics to determine which men benefit from higher testosterone. This could take many years. For now, follow your doctor's advice.
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The studies that have been done, have shown that after somebody has become castrate resistant, they can be given testosterone, and it will kill off some of the cancer that has grown immune to low testosterone and started spreading.
There are a number of studies about BAT, which is where they give testosterone injections to people that have Become resistant to the drugs. They can reset their systems to the point that they can start taking drugs like Zytiga again.
High testosterone when you are first diagnosed is not going to help. It’s later when the cancer has become able to grow without testosterone that it becomes Beneficial.