[SWALE]

First, please let me respond to Zippmann's statement. There is ABSOLUTELY no evidence that testosterone causes cancer. I have already lost several patients, who called me to break their initial office visit, because their PCP's told them "if you take testosterone it will give you cancer". It absolutely amazes me that any scientifically trained mind would make such an ignorant statement. There not only is NO evidence that testosterone does this, there actually is plenty that maintaining a healthy testosterone level is protective from the development of cancer. If the offending physician is so completely ignorant of this fact, they should simply keep their mouths shut. I mean, would they be pooh-poohing a new chemotherapy protocol, for instance, that they are not qualified to comment on? This is the same kind of thinking which caused the conventional medical community to throw Joseph Lister, MD out of medicine, for daring to suggest that perhaps it would be a good idea for Surgeons to actually wash their hands, and change their blood and feces soaked gowns between surgeries.

Okay, we hit a raw nerve in 'Ol Doc SWALE with that one.

This is a different situation, entirely, because we have a gentleman here who has already been diagnosed with CA. I don't believe any HRT doctor would initiate TRT in a patient such as this. Yet this patient is already on testosterone supplementation. In this case, I would choose to maintain the current TRT regimen, because discontinuing same would further compromise immune function. As always, however, this is a matter to decided between the patient and his own physician.

My hopes and prayers are with your father, MattD.

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