Intermittent androgen suppression with leuprolide and flutamide for prostate cancer: A pilot study

Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 800-804

  Higano, Celestia S ^a,b   Ellis, William ^a   Russell, Kenneth ^a   Lange, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; FLUTAMIDE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FLUTAMIDE; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030297953     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00381-0     Document Type: Article

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