Here’s an interesting development in the field of prostate cancer research. The headline is a bit sensationalistic, but the researchers seem to be seeing “unexpected” and “exciting” results.

Professor Sam Denmeade, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, US, who led the study, said: “”Our goal is to shock the cancer cells by exposing them rapidly to very high followed by very low levels of testosterone in the blood. The results are unexpected and exciting.

Man ‘cured’ of prostate cancer after doctors shock tumour to death with testosterone 

Update: 3 December 2016

Here’s the link to the abstract highlighting the preliminary results:

Rapid cycling high dose testosterone (Bipolar Androgen Therapy) as therapy for men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)