Man cured of prostate cancer after being given testosterone to shock tumours...
This has come as a big surprise to everyone in prostate cancer
research.
It has always been thought that one way of killing these cancer
cells was by starving them of testosterone. Nobody thought to do the
opposite, exposing them to massive amounts of the same stuff.
A man has been “cured” of prostate cancer using an experimental therapy
that shocks tumours to death with the sex hormone testosterone.
The disease was at an advanced stage and had failed to respond to
previous treatment.
Other seriously ill men taking part in the same trial showed responses
that astounded scientists.
Their tumours were seen to shrink and progress of the disease was halted
in several patients.
Levels of Prostate Specific Antigen – a blood marker
used to monitor prostate cancer – fell in the majority of the 47 participants,
with one individual seeing his PSA levels drop to zero after three months.
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