Radiation Plus Hormone Therapy Prolongs Survival for Older Men with Prostate Cancer
Sources: Penn Medicine News, CBS Philly, Yahoo! News, Renal and Urology News January 6, 2015
A new study led by Justin Bekelman in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that hormone therapy plus radiation reduced cancer deaths by nearly 50 percent in men aged 76 to 85 compared to men who only received hormone therapy. Bekelman advises patients and their physicians to “carefully discuss curative treatment options for prostate cancer and reduce the use of hormone therapy alone.”