Can Testosterone and Estrogen Lower Cancer Risk? 🤔

Name: Can Testosterone and Estrogen Lower Cancer Risk? 🤔
Uploaded: 2024-02-08T21:00:30+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube informational segment by Dr. Charles Mok discussing studies of combined testosterone and estrogen therapy. The speaker states typical…

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A short YouTube informational segment by Dr. Charles Mok discussing studies of combined testosterone and estrogen therapy. The speaker states typical dosing: testosterone about 1 mg per pound and estrogen about 3–6 mg, and reports ~40% reduction in breast cancer events when testosterone was added to estrogen versus no treatment. The clip focuses on hormone therapy dosing and an associated breast-cancer outcome finding from observational/clinical studies.

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About 1 milligram per pound.

About 3–6 milligrams.

Roughly a 40% reduction in breast cancer events.

Other studies that have emerged since I wrote the book have been using combinations of testosterone and estrogen, and again, we give a bigger dose of testosterone than estrogen. The testosterone dose is usually about a milligram per pound, and the estrogen dose is usually about 3 to 6 milligrams, a much lower dose because again, there's more testosterone in your body than estrogen. What they found was about a 40% reduction in breast cancer events when we used testosterone in addition to estrogen versus taking nothing.