prostate cancer; adt; testosterone; recovery; tth

* Dr. Tombal recommends relugolix, an oral GnRH antagonist that restores normal testosterone within 90 to 120 days, when ADT is required, and notes that patients who fail to recover normal testosterone have worse prognosis. * He also supports testosterone supplementation in symptomatic...

Background and purpose To determine the rate and time of testosterone (T) recovery in patients (pts) with localised prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy plus 0-, 6-, 18- or 36-month of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).Materials and methods In 1230 pts with prostate cancer randomised into...