News tagged with 'Hormone Therapy'

Adding radiation therapy to standard drug treatment can cut half the death rate from advanced prostate cancer and should become the standard of care globally, suggests Swedish researchers.

New analysis of a large federal study suggests menopause hormones taken for five years doubles the risk of breast cancer, revealing compelling findings of the dangers associated with these still-popular pills.

A new study finds that hormone therapy may not work as effectively in all prostate cancer patients. Researchers say, there is no evidence showing hormones help patients with low-risk or slow growing tumors.

As a followup to the landmark Women's Health Initiative, that overnight changed attitudes toward hormone replacement, researchers continued to follow women who stopped the drug after more than five years. While the risks of heart attack and stroke diminished, the risk of breast cancer did not.