HRT patches to treat prostate cancer – here’s how it works

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Women’s HRT patches can treat prostate cancer just as effectively as standard hormone injections – but with fewer of the worst side-effects – according to a large UK trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The finding could change how men with prostate cancer that has spread beyond the gland are treated for years to come.

Standard treatment has long relied on shutting down testosterone, the fuel that drives many tumours, through regular injections...