These can be stratified into two general categories, hormonal therapy and chemotherapy. It is important to clarify that no
treatments can cure advanced prostate cancer. The goal of these treatments is to control the spread and related symptoms.
Hormonal therapy, in broad terms, aims to limit the effect of testosterone in driving the spread of prostate cancer.
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