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2. 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 ...

3. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Surgical removal of the prostate, or prostatectomy, is a common treatment either for early-stage prostate cancer or for cancer that has failed to respond to radiation therapy. The most common type is radical retropubic prostatectomy , when the surgeon removes the prostate through an abdominal incision.

4. Hormonal therapy (oncology) - Wikipedia

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   Progestins (progesterone-like drugs) such as megestrol acetate and medroxyprogesterone acetate have been used for the treatment of hormone-responsive, advanced breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and prostate cancer. Progestins are also used in the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia, a precursor to endometrial adenocarcinoma. The exact ...

5. Antiandrogen - Wikipedia

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   Antiandrogens are used in the treatment of an assortment of androgen-dependent conditions in both males and females. [4] [9] They are used to treat men with prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, pattern hair loss, hypersexuality, paraphilias, and priapism, as well as boys with precocious puberty.

6. Antihormone therapy - Wikipedia

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   In more recent years, since the 1990s, new classes of drugs have been released and greatly changed the way hormonal cancers, like prostate and breast cancer, are treated. [7] Research to understand how hormones influence the growth of cancer cells has prompted researchers to find new ways to use drugs to prevent and treat hormone receptor ...

7. Common thyroid drug levothyroxine linked to bone mass loss - AOL

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   Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, showed that total body bone mass and density both decreased in adults over the age of 65 who received levothyroxine ...