In prostate cancer, hormone therapy is treatment to keep the cancer cells from getting testosterone, the main male hormone (androgen). Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is also called ...

Hormone treatment, also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is a cornerstone of treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Hormone treatment decreases prostate cancer growth by lowering ...

A new randomized study finds that a lab test that reads tumor genes can identify which patients with recurrent prostate cancer will benefit from adding hormone therapy to radiation after surgery - the ...

A large team of researchers led by Wouter Karthaus, head of the Endocrine Therapy Resistance and Molecular Genetics Lab at ...

A new form of immunotherapy using innovative nanoparticles can delay resistance to hormone therapy and help men with prostate cancer live longer. Researchers from the University of Sheffield have ...

Dr. Matthew Smith answers the question: 'Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer?' March 16, 2009 -- Question: What is hormone refractory prostate cancer? Answer: Nearly all men respond to initial ...

Cancer of the prostate has become the leading cause of cancer diagnoses among males in the United Kingdom. Its treatment, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy as part of a new phase of treating the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving ...

For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone fuels prostate cancer. But a more nuanced picture has emerged ...

A former prostate cancer patient who got the all-clear said taking part in a trial that cut his radiotherapy treatments proved "life changing". While most patients have 20 days of radiotherapy over ...

The anti-cancer drug olaparib may be effective in treating biochemically recurrent prostate cancer without accompanying hormone therapy for men who have mutations in genes such as BRCA2, according to ...