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Testosterone therapy for hypogonadal men with prostate cancer

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Testosterone therapy for men with prostate cancer is a controversial topic. A recent study retrospectively reviewed a single-centre experience in treating hypogonadal men with prostate cancer with exogenous testosterone therapy and found it to be safe.

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  1. Salvatore P. Catarinicchia and E. David Crawford are at the Division of Urology, University of Colorado School of Medicine 12631 East 17th Avenue, M/S C-319 Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.,

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Catarinicchia, S., Crawford, E. Testosterone therapy for hypogonadal men with prostate cancer. Nat Rev Urol 13, 497–498 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2016.118

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