Posted by Iansf on August 1, 2003, at 14:53:43
In reply to st.james,one of the biggest studies on prostate..., posted by john Henry on July 31, 2003, at 20:44:27
> One of the biggest studies done on men and benign prostate hypertrophy or BPH show a strong association with BPH and serum ESTRADIOL.It also shows the risk is to men who have LOW LEVELS OF TESTOSTERONE.
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7531326&dopt=AbstractIf the tesosterone-cancer link is valid, men with high testosterone levels ought to be more prone to prostate cancer than men with low levels. Yet I was diagnosed with prostate cancer at a relatively young age despite the fact my testosterone level is at the low end of normal. At the same time, friends of mine who are both older and at the high end of normal show no signs of the disease.
This of course does not disprove a correlation between high testosterone level and prostate cancer, but as far as I'm concerned it certainly brings it into question. Shockingly, none of my doctors or doctors I queried online knew of any research on the matter.
That said, there's no question that androgen abatement slows and even stops the spread of prostate cancer once it's been diagnosed. Which doesn't necessarily mean, however, that the absence of testosterone is the primary factor in halting cancer growth. It could be some other factor that goes along with stopping testosterone that does the trick. This also apparently has not been investigated.
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