I have a relative in his early 50's who chose hormonal therapy as his treatment for prostate cancer. He was always pretty secretive about his situation so I did not know he was diagnosed until he approached me soon after my diagnosis and he told me that he felt like he needed to shared his personal experiences with me as I was in the process of making a treatment choice. Not being familiar with this treatment other than the name he gave it, "Chemical Castration", I asked him how it works. He shared with me that the primary strategy of hormonal therapy is to decrease the production of testosterone by the testes or block the actions that testosterone has on the prostate cells. I was shocked when he mentioned, "Hormonal therapy cannot cure prostate cancer.