Prognostic value of alkaline phosphatase flare in patients with metastatic prostate cancer treated with endocrine therapy

Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 843-847

  Nakashima, Jun ^a   Ozu, Choichiro ^a   Nishiyama, Toru ^a   Oya, Mototsugu ^a   Ohigashi, Takashi ^a   Asakura, Hirotaka ^a   Tachibana, Masaaki ^a   Murai, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIANDROGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BONE NEOPLASMS; CASTRATION; ESTROGENS; GONADORELIN; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033790720     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)00755-X     Document Type: Article

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