They are uncomfortable episodes that cause excessive sweating and even heart palpitations. But many men going through prostate cancer treatment also experience hot flashes. Now a local study is helping turn down the heat. Edward Lawrence knows what it's like to suffer from hot flashes. And they were what they call the moderate range, occasionally severe.
Hot flashes can be one of the side effects of prostate cancer treatment.
Lawrence was put on lupron, a hormone therapy, to fight the disease. Of those men, almost two-thirds or 70 percent are experiencing hot flashes. Lawrence said that if a hot flash struck while he was driving, he had to pull over. Next, Lawrence tried a new medication being studied to treat hot flashes in men. Doctors said that the drug holds a double benefit.