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Memory Loss A Big Negative With Conventional Prostate Cancer Treatment

Because prostate cancer is leading cancer men face, I was attracted to this new and unusual study that showed how testosterone deprivation affects verbal memory. Scientists found men undergoing prostate cancer therapy forget things faster than their healthy counterparts. In fact, word retention drops sharply after only two minutes among men undergoing testosterone deprivation therapy. However, initial learning of the words, or encoding, was the same for testosterone-deprived and...