Re: TRT and prostate cancer

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it is simple t doesn't create cancer of prostate but it will make it grow once

it is there.

From: <rubennolastname@...>

Subject: TRT and prostate cancer

Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:55 AM

 

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Men's Health Boston, Division of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

Harvard Medical School, Boston.

A history of prostate cancer has been a longstanding contraindication to the

use of testosterone therapy due to the belief that higher serum testosterone

causes more rapid prostate cancer growth.

Recent evidence has called this paradigm into question. In this study we

investigate the effect of testosterone therapy in men with untreated prostate

cancer....

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If the link does not work, here is another:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=21334649

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=21334649>