Sunday, August 21, 2016

Articles about Cancer


0) causes
-- causes can be discrete or continuous
-- discrete: the presence or absence of something
-- continuous: too much or too little

1) Testosterone:
-- Testosterone can be too low
-- Testosterone helps create EPO for blood
-- women's levels are 10% of mens, so instead of 350 they have 35.
-- Why is 0 the goal for testosterone?

2) PSA:

3) Estrogen:

4) ADT:

5) Bones
-- bone fracture is not that immediate a problem
-- the danger is to bone marrow and blood creation

6) Immune system:

7) prostate cells
-- kill all the prostate cells, healthy and sick

8) Side effects
-- osteoporosis - fix is estrogen
-- hot flashes - fix is estrogen

PubMed
1. Isaacs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3374010/
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