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2. What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer Treatments - AOL

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   Siddiqui says the drug is approved for patients with advanced prostate cancer whose cancer has grown after hormone therapy or chemotherapy. “I describe it to patients as like a nuclear warhead ...

3. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   A new method to reduce rectal radiation injury in prostate cancer patients involves the use of an absorbable spacer placed between the prostate and rectum. MRI showing hydrogel spacer pushing the rectum away from the prostate during radiotherapy. Such spacers are commercially available in some regions and are undergoing clinical trials in ...

4. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...

5. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called medical oncology. [1] [2] The term chemotherapy now means the non-specific use of intracellular poisons to inhibit mitosis (cell division) or to induce DNA damage (so that DNA repair can augment chemotherapy ...

6. Hormonal therapy (oncology) - Wikipedia

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   The estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) is occasionally used to treat prostate cancer through suppression of testosterone production. It was previously used in the treatment of breast cancer, but has been replaced by more effective and less toxic agents. Estrace is an estrogen which was also formerly used for antiandrogen therapy of prostate ...

7. How I found peace with my pixie after having chemo - AOL

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   Me today, with my brother's dog, Ellie. Deanna Pai is a writer living in Manhattan. She was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer, at the age of 23.