Casodex (Bicalutamide) Plus Lhrh As a Prostate Cancer Drug

Prostate cancer drug prescription is a very tricky and complicated affair. Different people have varying lifestyles, and different eating habits. Age of the patient also plays a part in the drugs to be prescribed. Many times a combination of different treatment methodologies will have to be employed - like surgery by radiation or vice versa in addition to hormone therapy might be the answer.

Hormone therapy’s basic philosophy is based on the following principle. Testosterone, the male sex hormone has been found aiding and abetting the cancer cells to grow inside the body. In order to stop the cancer cells from growing, somehow the help and support it is receiving from the body has to be stopped.

So Hormone therapy goes to the root of the matter and cuts of the production of testosterone sex hormone in the body. This deprives the cancer cells food and shelter in the patient’s body, and they have no option except to perish In some cases hormone therapy is administered in conjunction with LH-RH agonists to set up a chemical blockade obstructing testosterone messages’ passage to testicles.

University of Rochester Medical Center Researchers’ observation is that some kinds of prostate cancer drug encourage cancer cell growth instead of eradicating them. This peculiar phenomenon is due to the fact that hormonal therapy when administered for a longer duration, fails to suppress the cancer growth.

So this has made some medical practitioners to switch over to a six month on and six months off program for drug administration. This on-off theory of hormonal therapy drugs has found a lot of followers.

Duke Prostate Medical Center Research team has established that the carbohydrate restriction in food, in spite of the weight loss, slows the growth of prostate tumor. However only mice have so far been tested and they are about to start on human volunteers. So some Doctors feel that diet plays a major role in cancer reduction.

Duke University Medical center at Durham, N.C., has done extensive research in diet for prostate tumor patients. They concluded that a diet rich in flaxseeds curbs the prostate cancer growth, irrespective of their low fat diets.

Male baldness treating drug Proscar , when employed as against tumors, is found to bring down PSA levels, hence useful in treating cancer. The lower dose version of the same medicine, Propecia, when administered as prostate cancer drug to over 350 men in the age of 350 men in the 40-60 group and it was observed that those who were administered Propecia had a 40-50% decrease in PSA levels, which as we all know, is beneficial in reducing cancer level.