Androgen Deprivation Therapy, Insulin Resistance, and Cardiovascular Mortality: An Inconvenient Truth - Basaria - 2013 - Journal of Andrology - Wiley Online Library - 0 views
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Nathan Goodyear on 03 Mar 14Androgen deprivation therapy is associated with increased diabetes, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular mortality. The longer the duration of therapy, the more the progression of metabolic dysfunction. This process seems similar to chemotherapy i.e. secondary cancer due to chemotherapy. The treatment of one disease, prostate cancer in this case, leads to an increase in the risk of the #1 killer in men--logic seems severely flawed there.