Does it help to add ADT to salvage radiotherapy?

Key sentence from the paper: “Patients who received ADT with salvage radiotherapy were significantly more likely to be clinically or biochemically progression free 5 years after treatment than those who had radiotherapy alone, and they did not experience additional late adverse events: 5 year [progression-free survival] was 80% for radiotherapy plus ADT group and 62% in the radiotherapy alone group.”

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What effect does exercise have on the muscles of men on ADT?

Key sentence from the paper: “This is the first study to evaluate the effect of strength training on mitochondrial proteins and indicators of muscle cellular stress in PCa patients on ADT. Contrary to our expectations, no effect of the intervention was observed in the levels of mitochondrial proteins…[or other]…proteins.

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A succinct status report on ADT

Key sentence from the paper: “…ADT plus radiation therapy should be used in patients at high risk, intermittent ADT is more appropriate for most patients than continuous ADT, and docetaxel should be given with ADT for high-volume metastatic disease.”

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