Androgen deprivation therapy associated with increased risk for fatal heart attack

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

Long term follow up of a randomized clinical trial that compared ADT and radiation therapy (RT) to RT alone finds that men with significant comorbidity; most commonly prior heart attack, who received ADT died earlier, due to a fatal heart attack, compared to men who did not receive ADT.

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