Radiation and hormone therapy, new features for more effective prostate

London: This research may be precisely the men. Prostate cancer to become the scourge of "bird" of the fathers, this need not have feared again. She is no effective therapy for the deal.

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Handling the most advanced prostate cancer with radiation and hormone therapy is able to cut the number average has a death. This is proven through research done on men Scandinavia.


In the United States, this combination has become the standard treatment since the 1990s. However, in Europe, many doctors avoid therapy combo (two methods of therapy in a time) and only use the hormone drugs. If you use two at once therapy is considered too unkind to most patients.


"What is being done in this research indicates that men with prostate cancer benefit with a more aggressive therapy," said Dr. Howard Sandler, spokesman Medical Center Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.


This study involved 875 men, prostate cancer sufferer from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Half of them are only given hormone therapy drugs to keep production testosteron that feed cancer cells, and some other drugs are also given in addition to radiation at the same time.


After almost eight years, 79 men who received hormone therapy alone died because of prostate cancer. Meanwhile, other groups - with hormone therapy and radiation - there are 37 men died with the same cause.


"Not only enough hormone therapy for patients," said one researcher Anders Widmark of the University of Umea in Sweden. "To increase the endurance of life, should also be given radiation. This should become the new standard. "


Prostate cancer usually attacks the men, aged above 50 years. However, in this research report also stated that the risk of men who received hormone therapy and radiation after five years will have the effect fatigue, sleep or difficult insomia and sexual problems.