Testosterone Therapy May Lower Prostate Cancer Incidence

[IMT staff]

We have been saying this for years and now it seems like its going mainstream

Ahmad Haider, MD, in private urology practice in Bremerhaven, Germany, and colleagues studied 400 hypogonadal men (testosterone level of 350 ng/dL or less) who received testosterone undecanoate 1000 mg every 3 months for up to 10 years and 376 hypogonadal men who opted against TRT (control group). During a median follow-up of 8 years, 9 men in the TRT group (2.3%) were diagnosed with PCa compared with 26 (6.9%) in the control group. The incidence was 31 per 10,000 years in the TRT group compared with 95 per 10,000 years in the control group.

All men in the TRT group underwent radical prostatectomy (RP), and all but 1 patient had a Gleason score of 6 or less. All had a predominant Gleason score of 3 and all had a tumor grade of G2 and tumor stage T2. In the control group, 18 underwent RP alone, 6 underwent RP and radiation, and 2 had radiation alone. All 26 patients had a Gleason score above 6, and 2, 20, and 4 had a predominant Gleason score of 3, 4, and 5, respectively. Tumor grade was G2 in 6 patients (23%) and G3 in 20 (77%). One patient (4%) had tumor stage T2 and 25 had tumor stage T3.

“In the testosterone group, all prostate cancers were diagnosed within the first year and a half suggesting that cancers had been present prior to initiating testosterone therapy,” Dr Haider said. “Because low testosterone is associated with low PSA, hypogonadism may contribute to reduced detectability of prostate cancer. Normalizing testosterone may have brought out the occult cancer.”

http://www.renalandurologynews.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-risk-lower-with-testosterone-replacement-therapy/article/707168/

 

[Mr P]

sounds good Todd, I enjoy reading this thread, since prostate cancer is alarming upon us men the worrie of being on trt may or may not increase prostate cancer is always in the back of everyone at risk, but this study show factual test done that being on trt will decrease prostate cancer, however the experimental study of this matter will proof more facts by feb of 2018, I can't wait to see more progress results..

 

[Mycelium]

Everything I've read shows healthy levels of TRT are better than low T /elevated estrogen. Long term diseases, healthy in later years, quality of life, bones/muscles/activity, mental health and even brain functions. Not saying it's a fix all obviously butbits benefits have been proven to out weight the bad at TRT/HRT doses and the person bei mg reasonably healthy.