Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer. Androgen deprivation therapy also called adt uses surgery or medicines. Hormone therapy helps shrink and slow the growth of tumors.
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is a treatment that stops the male hormone testosterone from being produced or reaching prostate cancer cells. Hormone therapy causes prostate cancer cells to die or to grow more slowly. Since that time hormonal therapy has undergone iterative advancement from the types of g.
The cells then die or grow more slowly.
Huggins and hodges demonstrated the therapeutic effect of gonadal testosterone deprivation in the 1940s and therefore firmly established the concept that prostate cancer is a highly androgen dependent disease. Since that time hormonal therapy has undergone iterative advancement from the types of g. Lhrh agonists and antagonists can stop the testicles from. Huggins and hodges demonstrated the therapeutic effect of gonadal testosterone deprivation in the 1940s and therefore firmly established the concept that prostate cancer is a highly androgen dependent disease.
