Hormone therapy may be overused - NEJM

"Hormone therapy, an aggressive treatment for prostate cancer, may be
overused, a new study suggests.

Treatment used to reduce the size of the prostate has been shown to
improve survival in advanced cancers, but doctors have increasingly been
giving hormone therapy in less-severe cases.

The study, published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine,
charted the quality of life for 1,201 men and their partners after the
men received three kinds of prostate-cancer treatment: removal of the
prostate; implantation of radioactive seeds; and radiation therapy in a
laboratory. ...Martin Sanda, a urologist at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston, who led the study, said the findings would
"throw a splashful of cold water" on the practice of providing hormone
therapy for less-severe cancers."

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