The News:
Prostate treatment questioned
Drugs blocking hormones eyed
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press
CHICAGO — A prostate-cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread. In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who'd gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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