New radiation therapies keep advanced prostate cancer in check - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publishing

New radiation therapies keep advanced prostate cancer in check - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publishing: Treatments for prostate cancer are always evolving, and now research is pointing to new ways of treating a cancer that has just begun to spread, or metastasize, after initial surgery or radiation. Doctors usually give hormonal therapies in these cases to block testosterone, which is a hormone that makes the cancer grow faster. But newer …