The Role of Follicle Stimulating Hormone in Advanced Prostate Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

In order to elucidate if FSH can have testosterone like effects, samples from young, non-smoking healthy volunteers, with normal body mass index, and with pharmacologically induced gonadotropin deficiency will be studied regarding their capacity to induce prostate specific antigen (PSA), which normally is regulated by testosterone.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Lund University
• Collaborators: ALF Swedish Government Grant; Swedish Cancer Foundation
• Treatments: Follicle Stimulating Hormone; Hormones; Methyltestosterone; Testosterone; Testosterone 17 beta-cypionate; Testosterone enanthate; Testosterone undecanoate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Healthy, non-smoking, body mass index 20-25, Exclusion Criteria:

Medication or drug abuse

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