{"id":93189,"date":"2019-07-06T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-drug-for-treating-prostate-cancer-has-been-linked-with-increased-risk-of-dementia-study-finds"},"modified":"2019-07-06T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T20:03:28","slug":"a-drug-for-treating-prostate-cancer-has-been-linked-with-increased-risk-of-dementia-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-drug-for-treating-prostate-cancer-has-been-linked-with-increased-risk-of-dementia-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"A drug for treating prostate cancer has been linked with increased risk of dementia, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-drug-for-treating-prostate-cancer-has-been-linked-with-increased-risk-of-dementia-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t improve the body by breaking its parts. In the case of prostate cancer this might be a fair trade-off, but unless you have a specific medical condition that is serious and life-threatening you should not be poisoning yourself with metabolism breaking chemicals. They will have negative impacts all over the body as a rule.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> Prostate cancer patients who take a hormone-suppressing drug may be at an increased risk for dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s, a study has found. <\/li>\n<li>The study of more than 150,000 men found a link between the degenerative diseases and a treatment drug called androgen deprivation therapy. <\/li>\n<li>Researchers cautioned doctors to further consider the risks of ADT before giving it to their patients to treat prostate cancer. <\/li>\n<li> Visit Business Insider\u2019s homepage for more stories. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A study of more than 150,000 men with prostate cancer found that a certain hormone treatment is linked with increased risks of dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a 20-percent higher chance of having dementia for older men who have taken the prostate cancer treatment, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2737101?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=070319\"> the research study from JAMA Network<\/a>. That drug treatment, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/prostate-cancer\/treating\/hormone-therapy.html\"> androgen deprivation therapy<\/a> (ADT), is used to suppress male hormones (like testosterone) that can help to spread prostate cancer in the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t improve the body by breaking its parts. In the case of prostate cancer this might be a fair trade-off, but unless you have a specific medical condition that is serious and life-threatening you should not be poisoning yourself with metabolism breaking chemicals. They will have negative impacts all over the body as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}