The role of antiandrogen monotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer

BJU International

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 455-461

  Anderson, J ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antiandrogen monotherapy; Bicalutamide; Localized; Locally advanced; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; BICALUTAMIDE; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; FLUTAMIDE; NILUTAMIDE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASTRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GYNECOMASTIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER TOXICITY; MASTALGIA; METASTASIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANILIDES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FLUTAMIDE; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; IMIDAZOLIDINES; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037352215     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.2003.04026.x     Document Type: Review

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