A Diabetes Drug May Mimic Exercise to Help Prostate Cancer Patients Stay Healthier
Ben Sullivan
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is, metabolically speaking, a kind of managed catastrophe. Within months of starting androgen deprivation treatment, men begin gaining weight, losing muscle, accumulating fat around the abdomen. Blood sugar climbs. Cardiovascular risk rises. The treatments work, often very well, but the body they work in pays a substantial price. And here is the particular cruelty of it: the one intervention most reliably shown to blunt these effects, regular strenuous...