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Prostate cancer : basic mechanisms and therapeutic approaches /

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death in men and its progression is highly dependent on androgens and androgen receptors. However, even with treatment, eventually most prostate cancers progress. Studies of the mechanisms behind this progression leads to advances in treatments for andr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chang, Chawnshang, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [River Edge] New Jersey : World Scientific, Ã2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hormonal therapy for prostate cancer: Clinical and experimental evidence
  • Immunotherapies for prostate cancer
  • Radiation therapy and hormonal therapy for prostate cancer
  • Gene therapy for prostate cancer
  • Chemotherapy for prostate cancer
  • Chemoprevention for prostate cancer
  • Neuroendocrine differentiation and androgen-independence in prostate cancer
  • Biology of prostatic acid phosphatase and prostate-specific antigen and their applications in prostate cancer
  • Epigenetics in prostate cancer
  • Significance of 5a-reductase in prostate cancer
  • Roles of Vitamin E in prostate and prostate cancer
  • Vitamin D and prostate cancer
  • Functions of estrogen receptor in prostate and prostate cancer
  • Epidemiology of prostate cancer
  • Profiling gene expression changes in prostate carcinoma
  • Study of androgenĀndrogen receptor roles in prostate cancer using mice lacking functional prostate androgen receptor
  • Capturing signal anomalies of human prostate cancer into mouse models.