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| 13 January 2011
UK Edition |
 Dear Reader,
You're sitting in your doctor's office, and he has some bad news.
Prostate cancer.
You shouldn't worry too much, though, right? He's a good doctor, and the treatment he's proposing is common — hundreds of thousands of people have been treated with it.
Surely, there's plenty of evidence that it works and is safe — after all, how else would it have become so common in the first place?
Unfortunately, "common" doesn't always — or often — mean the same thing as "the best" or "safe."
In fact, as we've learned many times in keeping an eye on the mainstream, common treatments can be downright dangerous. Too often, treatments reach wide use without the evidence to back them up. And it's not until a slew of people have been harmed that the real picture forms — that the treatment has risks that would have never been uncovered in a typical 3-month trial.
Such is the case with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a common treatment for prostate cancer. ADT combats the cancer by suppressing male sex hormones. Estimates put the current number of men being treated with it at 600,000.
And those 600,000 men may be at risk for structural bone decay.
The study that uncovered this connection is the first to look at bone structure and ADT. It will be published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The researchers found that ADT is associated with structural decay of two kinds of bone tissue — both the hard outer shell and the spongy mesh that makes up the inner part of the bone.
The loss was pretty serious — four to five percent of bone density.
Even without the bone risk, using hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer is a dangerous game. For starters, there is a shockingly high risk of heart problems associated with the use of such therapy. Overall, the risk for heart dangers was increased up to 31 percent, with the risk becoming even greater for men on therapies that reduce the production of testosterone.
Still, with serious risk to the heart — and now to the very structure of your bones — this type of therapy remains common. But just because something is common doesn't mean you have to give in — there are plenty of options (including doing nothing).
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Sources:
"Common Prostate Cancer Treatment Associated With Bone Decay," Science Daily (sciencedaily.com)
"Factors Identified for Bone Risk in Men on ADT," Medpage Today (medpagetoday.com)
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