Restarting exogenous testosterone after ADT for prostate cancer can cause false positives for recurrence. — Whalespan
Restarting exogenous testosterone after ADT for prostate cancer can cause false positives for recurrence.
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“so for for those individuals yeah radiation can actually be more harmful because you're not able to supplement back up someone's low te to their normal normal range afterward because just for the listener when you do radiation you're not removing all the prostate tissue so if you have any residual benign tissue in your prostate after radiation which you're going to have and you give back tea you may cause a false positive in terms of a recurrence for that particular patient's tumor”
“more radiation oncologists are hesitant to restart exogenous tea in somebody after months or two years of of ADT with their radiation because just for the listener when you do radiation you're not removing all the prostate tissue so if you have any residual benign tissue in your prostate after radiation which you're going to have and you give back tea you may cause a false positive in terms of a recurrence for that particular patient's tumor”
“if you have any residual benign tissue in your prostate after radiation which you're going to have and you give back tea you may cause a false positive in terms of a recurrence for that particular patient's tumor”