A good friend of ours...a doctor...is facing this disease "post lyme" so I am posting this hoping he is reading...
``Prostate cancer is the most hormone- sensitive cancer in man. While androgenic hormones (such as testosterone) secreted by the testes and adrenal glands are the most potent factors in promoting the vast majority of prostate cancer cell lines,
the hormone prolactin may also contribute to the proliferation of prostate cancer cells.
Studies have shown that prolactin may be involved in prostate growth, and a rising serum level of prolactin indicates progression in patients with advanced prostate cancer.
The presence of prolactin receptors in prostate cancer cells may facilitate the entry of testosterone into prostate cells. Since testosterone-blocking therapies do not completely eliminate testosterone from the blood, it is conceivable that prolactin could carry a small amount of residual testosterone into the prostate cells and cause cancer growth.
Suppressing prolactin secretion with relatively safe prescription drugs thus appears to be another method of slowing the progression of prostate cancer.''
Go to the above website for more information as well as what to take to halt this. Interesting...it is a NFkB inhibitor!
I have many files now on prolactin which I will try to simplify, point by point, to show you the connections...as time allows (my job jar is overflowing).
This hormone is hard to measure (follows body "rhythms") and to a degree, it is being controlled...until the control is lost.