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Systemic Treatment of Prostate Cancer.
Prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers in men in the western world, and the prevalence is rising currently due to improvements in screening and treatment. Serum PSA represents a useful marker of disease. It has frequently a long natural history, creating the opportunities for multiple seque...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2010.
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| Colección: | Oxford oncology library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers in men in the western world, and the prevalence is rising currently due to improvements in screening and treatment. Serum PSA represents a useful marker of disease. It has frequently a long natural history, creating the opportunities for multiple sequential therapeutic interventions. For patients with high risk local disease or with metastases, endocrine therapy is central to management. Hormone ablation has long been the mainstay ofendocrine therapy in this group of patients, though anti-androgens, oestrogens and corticosteroids can also cause r. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (102 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191575815 019157581X 1283348330 9781283348331 0199561427 9780199561421 |