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The symposium concluded that hair growth involves complex processes, including the hair follicle life cycle, the role of the dermal papilla, hair strength, pigmentation, and the impact of diseases and treatments like minoxidil on hair and skin.

Various medicinal plants like Polygonum multiflorum, Red ginseng extract, and Zizyphus jujuba can potentially treat hair loss, offering benefits like low cost and multiple ways of working. Other effective natural substances include Pygeum africanum, Seneroa, Urtica dioica, and more.

Androgen lowering medications don't significantly change HCV-related liver cancer risk in men.

The study suggests that a specific gene variation and higher gene activity are linked to increased baldness in Egyptian men.

Finasteride improves hair growth in men with androgenetic alopecia.

Epitestosterone may act as a weak antiandrogen and can inhibit an enzyme involved in testosterone metabolism.

Most COVID-19 patients in hospitals have androgenetic alopecia, more in men, suggesting a link between androgen sensitivity and severe COVID-19 symptoms.

Spironolactone may help reduce excessive hair growth in women with high male hormone levels.

Finasteride significantly reduces fertility in male rats.

A man with a rare adrenal cancer showed unusual symptoms and died four months after diagnosis.

A man with X-ALD improved after treatment, highlighting the need to consider X-ALD in similar patients and test their relatives.

Skin disorders in pets can help detect hidden cancers early.

DGAT1 enzyme is crucial for healthy skin and hair by regulating retinoid levels.

Androgen receptors are active in many tissues of both male and female mice, not just reproductive organs.

Steroidogenesis inhibitors change but don't stop androgen production in prostate cancer.

Genetic defects in androgen production are linked to male developmental disorders and are improving treatment understanding.

Testosterone and its byproducts help support male sexual behavior through different pathways in the brain and body.

Hormone therapy can improve mental health and quality of life for people with gender dysphoria, but long-term effects need more research.

Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 helps repair heart damage after a heart attack by creating new blood vessels, especially in diabetics.

SMR-2 and SMR-6 are much more toxic than retinoic acid, causing severe side effects.

People with the same genetic mutation for Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome can have different symptoms.

Darker skin in 10-year-old girls may be an early sign of puberty.

Prostate cancer can progress even with low testosterone due to internal hormone production in the tumor.

Hormone therapy affects cancer risks in transgender individuals differently than in cisgender people, and more research is needed to understand these risks and improve cancer screening guidelines.

Old drugs are often used for new, different medical purposes in endocrine pharmacology.

Finasteride, when taken daily, lowers dihydrotestosterone levels but doesn't noticeably affect adrenal steroid production, except by blocking the 5 alpha-reductase enzyme.

The book concludes that despite progress, cancer drug treatments have not met the expectations set in the 1960s and 1970s.