Peter Attia· MD
we do think think about utilizing um Androgen deprivation therapy as a radiation sensitizer okay so it is known that when you have a higher grade tumor let's just say you have a glein eight or nine like we talked about that radiation alone is not going to effectively cure that patient of their prostate cancer so you need to get you need to deliver and we know you can deliver radiation sensitization with Androgen deprivation Androgen deprivation induces double strand DNA breaks that's the whole purpose of radiation itself is to induce those breaks so you can so in other words endogen deprivation makes the cells even more susceptible to the radiation treatment so we use that routinely