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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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