It may sound strange, but there is increasing evidence that hormone therapy, which would normally be taken to boost the levels of testosterone in the blood after prostate surgery or chemotherapy for prostate cancer, can also work directly as a way of treating prostate cancer itself.
In a case where prostate cancer has been detected, hormone therapy aims to reduce the production of hormones that can stimulate cancer growth. The target of using hormones as a cancer treatment is to slow or halt the growth of prostate cancer cells. Hormone therapy may be the preferred alternative to surgery or radiation treatments.
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