Quote from: Hannah_Irene on February 14, 2011, 08:13:20 AM
How does this work? I understand that T promotes the cancer but won't the doctor just say that a anti-androgen is sufficient?
Both my Dad and my uncle died of aggressive forms for prostate cancer and I'm at a much higher risk for that type of cancer. They put my Father on T-blockers when he was diagnosed and when my his cancer kept coming back they put him on a fairly high does of estrogen which was supposed to slow it down. Strange to think we were both on HRT but at different times and for very different reasons. I remember him complaining about how much his boobs hurt. Little did I know at the time I'd be finding out how much it does hurt but I'm happy about it.
That's assuming all GPs in the UK (physicians elsewhere?) are the same, but they're not...
The decent kind will help if you show you are rational and that you need something done/authorised to be done.
Then's there's another who is a right tool talking about not doing a procedure "unless it's absolutely necessary." This second kind infest the NHS allowing the elderly to pass away 'naturally' in our hospitals when that person could have been saved easily, it's the horrendously long hours and the many patients they see which are too blame, it dehumanises the patients in the overworked doctor's eyes, like seeing something horrible over and over and over again. Still humans are capable of great callousness anyway, it's a trait that is horrorifying it it's implications.
These callous doctors get a kick out of playing God, take their authority away from them do not allow them to pretend they even have a clue what they are talking about, the life they mess around with is not theirs IT'S YOURS.
Empathic doctors will have concern and this is normal and healthy. Those second kind there comes a point where one has to bypass certain individuals.
