Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer hormone therapy is used quite often when treating prostate cancer patients. This therapy does not involve the patient receiving hormones. Rather, doctors try to suppress the hormone testosterone. Dr. Richard Bevan-Thomas tels us that prostate cancer cells actually use testosterone for fuel in its early stages. Patients are routinely given a shot which tells their brain to stop signalling the testicles to make testosterone. These shots may be administered from one to six months. This