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Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for short or long-term?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 21 1:10pm | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
New studies now indicate that low testosterone may worsen cancer and major medical research institutions like John Hopkins, Duke, Mayo, and NIH are entertaining the use of TRT (Testosterone Recovery Treatment) after successful initial treatments. Tuesday, I visit my urologist and will attempt to get him to approve TRT for me since my side effects are so bad and my PSA is undetectable after a year.
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@pesquallie
Low testosterone can worsen cancer when it has become castrate resistant. When that happens, not all of the cells are susceptible to testosterone, but some still are.
If you were just beginning with a low Level case of prostate cancer, then testosterone really does help stopping it in its tracks.
Even people with more serious prostate cancer who wanted to delay doing anything benefit from having ADT while they delay it.
There’s no real specific answer to when testosterone will help, But it’s more likely to do it in an advanced case.