Six months hormonal treatment in addition to radiotherapy improves survival for men with localized prostate cancer

Monday, April 7, 2014 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Men with prostate cancer that is small and confined to the prostate gland but that is at risk of growing and spreading, do better if they are treated with radiotherapy combined with androgen deprivation therapy, which lowers their levels of the male hormone, testosterone, according to new research.

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