Metastatic Prostate Cancer (Treatment)

Castration May Help Some Patients

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 11th, 2000

Men with spreading prostate cancer are five times more likely to survive if they undergo castration - either chemically or surgically - immediately after the prostate is removed, a study found.

That is a desperate measure, but spreading prostate cancer is a killer, and some men become impotent anyway from prostate-removal surgery.

The study is the first to show that hormone-blocking treatments sometimes called "chemical castration" can save the lives of men with spreading prostate cancer, which kills 37,000 men a year in the United States. Such treatments should start at once if cancer cells are found in lymph nodes after prostate removal, Dr....

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