article_snippet.sent: Hormone therapy, usually given in the form of regular injections or implants, is the first treatment offered to men with advanced prostate cancer - where the cancer has spread beyond the prostate.
article_snippet.sent: Hormone therapy is also given alongside radiotherapy to some men with localised prostate cancer to shrink the cancer and make Hormone therapy easier to treat.
article_snippet.sent: The majority of prostate cancers rely on the hormone to grow.
article_snippet.sent: In England alone, 13,000 men receive hormone treatment every year - in the form of jabs given monthly or every three months according to the charity Prostate Cancer UK.
article_snippet.sent: Men with advanced prostate cancer could be on hormone therapy for the rest of Men with advanced prostate cancer life, says Ali Rooke. '
article_snippet.sent: But men who are on it along with radiotherapy tend to only have it for up to three years until the cancer has been treated.'
article_snippet.sent: A trial on prostate cancer patients at King's College London, published in March, has shown such impressive results that it is likely to be offered nationally.
article_snippet.sent: prostatecanceruk.org .