For men between 55 and 67, taking testosterone therapy doesn’t seem to increase their chances of getting prostate cancer compared to men who don’t take it, based on a long-term study of nearly 3,000 men.

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Testosterone replacement therapy is not associated with increased prostate cancer incidence, prostate cancer-specific, or cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in Finnish men

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This study looked at older men taking testosterone therapy and found they didn’t get prostate cancer more often than men who didn’t take it — so the therapy doesn’t seem to raise the risk.

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Testosterone replacement therapy is not associated with increased prostate cancer incidence, prostate cancer-specific, or cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in Finnish men

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DOI: 10.1080/0284186X.2023.2278189

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