you could do intermittent hormonal therapy (iht) and hold off on further hormones until your psa goes higher and then plan to just take 6-9 months of shots to drive the psa lower then stop again. also you could do peripheral androgen blockade (pad) with oral only hormone medicines like bicalutamide or flutamide with or without finasteride or dutasteride. in the future there may be other good alternative options to the hormonal shots. there are multiple new hormonal pills under development in clinical trials that look quite promising. some of them include aberaterone mdv-3100 and tak-700. .
i have not been given hormones for my prostate cancer because of the side effects. what are my other treatment options?