What is Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) for Prostate Cancer Survivors and Caregivers?

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Did you know androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) lowers testosterone levels, which then causes prostate cancer cells to die? On July 10th, PHEN held a Managing Survivorship Webinar where Dr. Alicia Morgans, Medical Director of the Survivorship Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, outlined exactly how ADT works. PHEN Ambassador Sherman Womack also shared his prostate cancer journey with ADT. Find out more about ADT’s role in treating prostate cancer and its potential side effects by watching PHEN’s Managing Survivorship Webinar recording.

 

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* a lot of the side-effects we see are related not to just low testosterone but also to really low levels of estrogens in men so we've got low levels of testosterone and we've got levels of estrogen that are lower than the levels that we see in postmenopausal women, so really low levels of all the hormones we are thinking about

 

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