Estrogen can kill prostate cancer, research says

Prostate cancer is treated by diminishing male hormone testosterone from the patient- but while this kills most of the cells, the few that remain lead to recurrent, incurable disease.

Now, scientists have come up with an astonishing way to treat the disease, by using estrogen, a hormone normally associated with women.

According to them, the research provides proof of the controversial concept that estrogens could be good for men and can be used medicinally to treat prostate cancer.