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Prostate Cancer
Hormonal Therapy
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The goal of hormone therapy is to reduce the amount of male hormones in the body, thereby affecting all of the prostate cancer cells (a form of systemic therapy, not a local therapy like radiation). Hormone therapy can involve removing the testicles (orchiectomy), the use of a hormone to prevent the testicles from producing testosterone (a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone), and the intake of estrogen to combat the effects of testosterone on the prostate.
Hormone therapy can also help with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, but with time, the cancer may no longer respond to or be in need of male hormones to continue spreading. When this occurs, your doctor can review other methods that can be enabled to stop the disease from spreading if not cure it altogether.
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