Systemic Treatment of Prostate Cancer.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horwich, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010.
Series:Oxford oncology library.
Subjects:
Prostate > Cancer > Diagnosis.
Prostate > Cancer > Treatment.
Prostate > Diseases.
Generative organs, Male > Diseases.
Genitourinary organs > Diseases.
Diseases.
Genital Neoplasms, Male
Prostatic Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
Urogenital Neoplasms
Male Urogenital Diseases
Neoplasms by Site
Disease
Neoplasms
Prostatic Neoplasms
Female Urogenital Diseases
Prostate > Cancer > Traitement.
Prostate > Maladies.
Organes génitaux mâles > Maladies.
Appareil urogénital > Maladies.
Maladies.
illness.
disease.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
Prostate > Diseases
Genitourinary organs > Diseases
Generative organs, Male > Diseases
Diseases
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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