Peter Attia· MD
If your prostate cancer can grow without testosterone, beware. It's a bad problem.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If your prostate cancer can grow without testosterone, beware. It's a bad problem.
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whereas a basil tumor which is by nature able to survive in the absence of testosterone and or uses alternate growth Pathways to testosterone because it doesn't have it's not it's not dependent on it those tumors are more capable of spreading to other parts of the body
the cancers the prostate cancers that are most likely to kill you which by definition are the ones that spread are also the most capable of thriving in a low testosterone environment and therefore are least hurt by Androgen deprivations
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