Breast cancer and Prostate cancer

Breast cancer has become a normal phenomenon especially to old women. To put it simply, it has become one of the world top killers.

Breast cancer needs oestrogen (female hormone) to feed the cancer cells and grows.

In palliative treatment of breast cancer, tamoxifen (anti-oestrogen agent) is used to stopping the oestrogen to cancer cells. It is preferably to be used in postmenopausal women, and not postmenopausal women.

Meanwhile, prostate cancer which occurs only in men is dependent on testosterone hormone (male hormone).

Diethylstilbestrol is used to treat prostate cancer b y suppressing the effects of testosterone, thus shrinking the tumour. It can also be used to treat breast cancer but at higher dose.