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January 4th, 2008

Short-Term Hormone Therapy Can Delay Prostate Cancer Growth By Up To 8 Years

Just four months of hormonal (androgen deprivation) therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed cancer growth by as much as eight years–especially the development of bone metastases–and increased survival in older men with potentially aggressive prostate cancer.
Such were the findings reported by researchers of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
This “neoadjuvant” hormonal therapy […]

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