Assertion: prostate cancer | /r/CapableOf | become resistant
Facets:
value: to hormonal therapy
type: OTHER
value: after a while
type: TEMPORAL
value: over time
type: TEMPORAL
value: to this treatment
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: If your prostate cancer advances and becomes castrate resistant, there are therapies that can help slow the advance of the disease, although they do not cure the cancer.
text: Most prostate cancers treated with hormone therapy become resistant to this treatment over a period of months or years.
text: When prostate cancer has spread to bone and has also become resistant to standard hormonal therapy (this is called metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, see below), bone-modifying drugs may be recommended to reduce the risk of these complications.
text: Many prostate cancers that originally respond to treatment with standard hormone therapy become resistant over time, resulting in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).
text: After a while, all prostate cancers will become resistant to hormonal therapy.
text: But prostate cancer in this setting will inevitably progress and become more aggressive and resistant, and you should be prepared to discuss more aggressive treatment strategies with your doctor.