PC-SPES: Current evidence and remaining questions

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-204

  Ades, Terri ^a   Gansler, Ted ^a   Miller, Margie ^d   Rosenthal, David S ^b,c  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ESTRAMUSTINE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; PC SPECS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CAPSULE; DRUG MECHANISM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FATIGUE; GYNECOMASTIA; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LEG CRAMP; LEG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MASTALGIA; MOUSE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0035008871     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.51.3.199     Document Type: Article

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