For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone helps prostate cancer grow. But a very different picture has emerged over the past two decades. The prostate is a small gland that sits ...

This article was reviewed by Darragh O’Carroll, MD. PSA and Testosterone: Are They Linked? Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a term you’ll probably become familiar with once you start getting ...

I have turned 60 and am a healthy chap who exercises and watches his diet regularly. Shortly after my 60th birthday, I started waking up at night to urinate. However, I often struggle to drain the ...

Los Angeles, Calif. – Testosterone therapy does not cause adverse effects on the prostate in older men with hypogonadism, commonly known as low testosterone or low T, according to a clinical trial ...

Among prostate cancer patients under active surveillance, low testosterone levels were associated with a statistically significant increased risk of "extreme" progression to grade group 3 or higher ...

SAN ANTONIO — A small pilot study delivered a big message about the use of testosterone in men with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer, according to a "Best Abstract" presented at the Sexual ...

The testosterone threshold should be less than 10 ng/dL rather than less than 50 ng/dL for gauging advanced prostate cancer prognosis in patients on ADT. Examining sustained testosterone suppression ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. The first thing Abraham Morgentaler learned about testosterone is that it’s a brain hormone. It was in a ...

Q. You recently wrote that testosterone does not increase the risk for heart attacks. But you overlooked the real risk of testosterone therapy: cancer! I survived advanced prostate cancer seven years ...

Testosterone testing and treatment have increased significantly over the past 2 decades, yet clinical practices remain inconsistent. 1,2 Despite rising awareness and prescription trends, up to 25% of ...

In men, marked hypogonadism due to pituitary or testicular disease generally has readily recognizable clinical manifestations, such as decreases in libido and sexual activity, loss of secondary sex ...