How does prostate medication compare to other treatments for prostate cancer?

What does hormone treatment for prostate cancer entail? And how effective is it?

While the prospect of prostate cancer is never met with eager expectation it no longer needs to be met with the same grim determination and certainty of doom that greeted it in recent years.

There is no easy way to put it. Orchiectomy is the removal of either one of or both testicles. The testicles are where testosterone and sperm are produced in the human male.

If you are asking this question, chances are that your physician has approached you with the possibility of hormone therapy.