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A Drug Treatment for Prostate Cancer Increases the Risks of Diabetes and
Cardiovascular Disease
Rather
than prescribing diet-based alternative medicine, drugs that reduce male
hormones are often given to prostate cancer patients.
Here,
the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports that giving an androgen 'male
hormone] reducer increased the risk of cardiovascular disease and
diabetes in a study of 73,196 men aged 66 or older.
"CONCLUSION:
'Gonadotropin-releasing hormone increaser] treatment for men with
...prostate cancer may be associated with an increased risk of incident
diabetes and cardiovascular 'heart and blood] disease. The benefits of
'this treatment] should be weighed against these potential risks."
Editor's Note: No attempt apparently was made to substitute alternative
medicine-based (foods) to counter male hormone production, which could
REDUCE the risks of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Another avoidance of alternative medicine in favor of the terrible side
effects of conventional drug therapy!
From:
Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 24, 2006. By: Drs. Keating, O'Malley
& Smith, Div. of General Internal Med., Harvard Med. School, and the
Div. of Hematology and Oncology, Mass. Gen. Hosp., Boston, MA
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