Prostate cancer patients who received hormone-lowering therapy were at higher risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease later on than men who didn’t get this treatment, a large U.S. study finds.
Researchers who followed nearly 155,000 men with prostate cancer found that overall, those given so-called androgen-deprivation therapy were at a 20% higher risk of being diagnosed with dementia and at 14% higher risk of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the next 10 years. The risk continued to rise with increasing doses of androgen-deprivation drugs.
The results suggest that in cases where the prostate cancer is localized, androgen-deprivation therapy may not be a good choice, said the study’s lead author, Ravishankar Jayadevappa, a research associate professor in the department of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Even in patients at high risk, there needs to be a discussion about the elevated risk of dementia and…
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