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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horwich, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010.
Colección:Oxford oncology library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biological principles of hormone therapy
  • PSA as a marker of progression and response in advanced prostate cancer
  • Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer
  • Systemic treatment of recurrence after local therapies
  • First-line hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer
  • Second- and third-line hormone therapies
  • Chemotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer
  • Role of bisphosphonates in the systemic treatment of prostate cancer
  • Systemic isotope therapy of bone metastasis
  • Biological targets and new drug development for prostate cancer.