Case Report: Combined Treatment with Buserelin+Cabergoline in Patient with Prostate Cancer -- Cure

[George71]

" In conclusion: Combined buserelin + cabergoline treatment proved a highly successful procedure to cure this patient with prostate carcinoma and subsequent pituitary macroprolactinoma. "

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[tallguy2]

Thanks for posting this.

[Jbooml]

Fascinating...only prolactin...something I had no idea men secreted spiked with his treatment....anybody out there have all the mentioned pit hormones evaluated during treatment....what really stood out to me was the high dose antihypertensives he received and what role they play in concerting with his ‘cure’...

Love these cases for their keyhole peek into what happens to work with these comorbidities.

Thanks Again George...you’re a wiz at hunting down these exotic cases.

[Manilo in reply to Jbooml]

Antihypertensives seem to force hyperprolactinemia

[AlanMeyer]

The study is interesting but the language they use in the conclusion ("a highly successful procedure to cure this patient") seems critically overstated. Apparently the patient's PSA dropped dramatically to near zero - but that happens to some fraction of men who take ADT. It is good but, in itself doesn't indicate a "cure". Furthermore, near the end of the article (3rd paragraph before the end) it says: "... and significant tumor shrinkage was

observed on MRI." One would expect that, in a cure, tumors would disappear, not just "shrink".

I don't think anyone should get their hopes up that this article is reporting on a cure for prostate cancer.

Alan