How long to continue hormone therapy-Lupron shots. - American Cancer Society

In late 2011 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, high PSA number and Gleason score. I decided on radiation treatment, started with hormone therapy, followed by 5 weeks of external beam radiation and just had seed implants. At first my Oncologist said the ...

Trial Supports Earlier Use of a Prostate Cancer Drug - New York Times

The men took Zytiga for either 12 or 24 weeks. They were also given a steroid and the standard hormone therapy leuprolide acetate, also known by the brand name Lupron. Their prostate glands were then removed by surgery and examined. Among the ...

Johnson & Johnson Shows Promise In High Risk Prostate Cancer-Reuters - Reuters

The Phase II trial looked at the effect of adding Zytiga to Lupron, a drug designed to trick the testicles into ceasing production of testosterone. Of the 29 men who received the drugs for six months before having prostate surgery, the prostates of three ...

Hormone treatment - American Cancer Society

Lupron side effect are different with each person, if I can remember 2 years ago, I think it was about a month for the hot flashes to start, the drug is already working on the shut down of food source for the cancer. The Radiation treatment effect will ...

How I became the boy I always knew I was: Transgender teen's powerful story of starting female to male transition at just 13 - Daily Mail

I said no,' she admitted. Isaac's distress at getting his first period was the moment that changed her mind, and by the start of the next summer, he began taking the drug Lupron. 'I chose a pill form,' he told the magazine. 'I should probably have started ...

1st Convicted Pedophile to Be Chemically Castrated - Digital Chosunilbo

The ministry has ordered him to take Lupron and Zoladex, which block the pituitary gland from secreting testosterone and are also used to treat prostate cancer. It said the drugs are also being used in Germany, Sweden and the U.S. state of California as ...

Unprecedented: Abiraterone for High-Risk Prostate Cancer - Medscape News

Abiraterone blocks androgen biosynthesis. Traditional hormonal therapy, which in this study was leuprolide acetate (Lupron),restricts testosterone production in a different and complimentary way. The approach of intensive androgen deprivation is also being ...

Prostate Cancer Tops News in Humdrum ASCO Abstract Release - Phramalive.com

Interim results showed that adding Zytiga to standard hormonal treatment with Lupron (leuprolide acetate) before surgical removal of the prostate produced either complete or nearly complete elimination of cancer upon surgery in 34 percent (10/29 ...

Cancer drug may eradicate tumours in men - Health 24

Therapy tolerated by groups The Phase 2 trial looked at the effect of adding Zytiga to Lupron, a drug designed to trick the testicles into ceasing production of testosterone. Of the 29 men who received the drugs for six months before having prostate ...