Patients with advanced prostate cancer or high risk disease are placed on shots or implants (lupron, Vantus, Eligard – for example)to deprive the body of testosterone. They block the brains signals to the make precursor hormones that make testosterone. Side effects including breast tenderness and hot flashes. Dr. Grotas can help with these side effects. [...]

click on this to see Dr. Tareen’s 1st blog post! I wish him well in his new career as expert blogger. Dr Tareen is one of my partner’s in the union square office.  We collaborate on interesting and difficult cases involving complex cancer issues.