Better poison dosages for better prostate cancer therapies

A given substance may be fundamental for life or may serve as a poison. All depends on the specific dose. At first glance, this somewhat paradoxical principle in medicine was first coined by the Swiss physician Paracelsus more than half a millennium ago when he stated: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison". Centuries later, researchers at the Institute of Oncology Research in Bellinzona (IOR, affiliated to USI) have discovered how these fundamental principles described by Paracelsus influence prostate cancer treatment. The insights published now may lay the foundation for more personalised therapeutic avenues for prostate cancer patients. Testoterone, the 'elixir' of prostate cancer Androgen steroid hormones produced in the testes are the elixir for prostate cancer.