My Father’s Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment Is Regrowing His Hair

My father is a Norwood 6. He is 80 years old. He has advanced prostate cancer. Treatment includes medication that drops your testosterone levels because prostate cancer feeds off of testosterone. Besides treating his cancer, he’s had some hair regrowth. The meds have some listed significant side effects but he hasn’t really experienced them. Just wondering if anyone has studied the use of Lupron and Ketoconozole for hair growth or especially prevention of hair loss. He also takes Casodex for eliminating testosterone produced by the adrenal glands?

I guessing the problem is that the long term use of these drugs, although effective at dropping your DHT levels lower than current meds, will weaken your bone over time and make you osteoporotic.

Any thoughts? Thought there would be a way to manipulate the effects of these drugs and use them for hair loss prevention

I do not think taking medication for cancer treatment with all the side effects possibilities would be a worthwhile risk for the treatment of hair loss (which is not a life threatening condition). There are always risks and benefits that need to be weighed before taking a medication.

Ketoconazole is an anti-fungal medication that some people claim has positive effects on hair growth, but Lupron lists hair loss as a possible side effect. As far a research behind the drugs you mentioned for the treatment of hair loss, I am not aware of any.