testosterone
"The ring structure of testosterone makes it a molecule that, in three-dimensions, has a zig-zag shape. The three-dimensional shape of testosterone is like a three-piece foldable lawn chair that has been unfolded but not to the point where it is straight."
"Testosterone is like fertilizer for prostate cancer, much the way that estrogen helps breast cancer to grow. "Prostate cancer is androgen-regulated. Fifty years ago a scientist won the Nobel Prize for observing that removing testosterone improved survival for metastatic prostate cancer. Even today, most treatments involve injections of drugs that keep men with prostate cancer from producing the male sex hormone," says Evans."
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