A 20-year study has revealed that the rate of death from prostatecancer did not differ significantly between men who had been screened for the disease and men who had not.
Is all prostatecancer testosterone receptor-positive?—Mike Hutchins, MD, Missoula, Mont. Yes, all prostate cells have androgen receptors. This is the reason prostatecancer will respond to androgen deprivation. What has puzzled urologists for more than 50 years now is the mechanism of resistance to androgen ablation. Much attention has focused on the androgen receptor as…
