Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Preventing prostate cancer through androgen deprivation may have harmful effects

The use of androgen deprivation therapies to prevent precancerous prostate abnormalities developing into aggressive prostate cancer may have adverse effects in men with precancers with specific genetic alterations, according to data from a preclinical study recently published in Cancer Discovery. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Jia S, et al. Opposing Effects of Androgen Deprivation and Targeted Therapy on Prostate Cancer Prevention. Cancer Discov. 2012 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23258246

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