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Living with Prostate Cancer: Meet others & introduce yourself

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 10 6:24pm | Replies (648)
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@drggkelley

Thank you for sharing your story. It is reassuring to hear about the positive outcome. Congrats on the outcome. What is ADT in a nutshell? I wish you continued freedom.

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waynen | @waynen | Oct 30, 2021

Testosterone is an androgen. There are others in our body also. Lupron and other drugs deprive our bodies of androgen, which feed the cancer.

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web265 | @web265 | Oct 31, 2021

androgen deprivation therapy, things like Lupron. It was described to me in layman's terms as causing the body to stop producing say testosterone, testosterone is a sort of prostate cancer food. There's a lot more technical information on the web.

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