Prostate Cancer - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of hormone ablation for prostate cancer.

We're celebrating the 80th anniversary of hormone ablation as a treatment for metastatic prostate cancer in this issue of Endocrine-Related Cancer. Our understanding has expanded from the discovery that androgen withdrawal, whether surgical or pharmacological, resulted in prostate atrophy in animal models, to its use in humans, to the investigation of the mysterious way prostate cancer can be avoided androgen dependence.

Source link: https://doi.org/10.1530/ERC-21-0192

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