The treatment of prostate cancer: be castrated Or Die

The treatment of prostate cancer: be castrated Or Die

 

Prostate cancer feeds on testosterone? . Sometimes doctors castrate patients reduce testosterone boost prostate cancer. It seems hard, but it might be a case of rather be castrated or die? Alternative to castration repression sometimes use drugs to reduce testosterone to castrate levels hormones. All these attempts to combat testosterone are very difficult as any pure drug will have limited success. This happens because the body is a complex mechanism and sophisticated feedback.Measured testosterone levels at all times. So using a pure anti-androgen to reduce the effect of testosterone in essence says the feedback loop "Hey, we need more testosterone, we are not getting enough." The feedback loop then determines the testes to start producing more testosterone. So the testes start producing testosterone almost unlimited, and finally kind of overcome the effect of any "pure" anti - androgens, simply flood the body with the ongoing process increasingly testosterone.This can be overcome by things like agonists GnRH, as Lupron. Basically that interrupt set hidden feedback and tell the body to stop producing testosterone. In essence, "trick" you into thinking testosterone levels are very high in the body. They can reduce testosterone to castrate levels, basically, as long as you take them. Sometimes, to further reduce the pure testosterone may be used as Casodex above them an anti- 
up. Valerian D