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Are the cardiac risks of LHRH agonists also seen in patients undergoing bilateral orchiectomy for ADT in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer?

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Medical Oncology · University of Virginia
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Although the true implications of testosterone suppression on cardiac risk/disease remains somewhat undefined, it is the low testosterone levels, not the mechanism of how these levels were obtained i.e. either surgical or medical castration that is the issue.

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