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Systemic treatment of prostate cancer / edited by Alan Horwich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford oncology library.
- Oxford oncology library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostate--Cancer--Diagnosis.
- Prostate.
- Prostate--Cancer--Treatment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Symbols and abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Biological principles of hormone therapy; 2 PSA as a marker of progression and response in advanced prostate cancer; 3 Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer; 4 Systemic treatment of recurrence after local therapies; 5 First-line hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer; 6 Second- and third-line hormone therapies; 7 Chemotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer; 8 The role of bisphosphonates in the systemic treatment of prostate cancer; 9 Systemic isotope therapy of bone metastasis
- 10 Biological targets and new drug development for prostate cancerIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-174025-X
- 0-19-960737-0
- 1-283-34833-0
- 9786613348333
- 0-19-157581-X
- OCLC:
- 763157034
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