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Hormone Therapy in Prostate Cancer

Hormon therapy width=In most cases, prostate cancer is a hormone-dependent tumor, particularly androgens. When androgens are removed from the blood is the improvement of the symptoms caused by metastases or urinary obstruction, and, lower PSA levels.

It is a palliative treatment, achieving the improvement of symptoms in patients with advanced disease (metastases), the delay of clinical progression and possibly prolonging surviva
Androgens are produced mostly (90-95%) in the testes in the form of testosterone, and the remainder (5-10%) in the adrenal glands, which lie on top of both kidneys. These act on the prostate androgen stimulating the proliferation of tumor cells Read the rest of this entry »