Locally advanced prostate cancer - Biochemical results from a prospective phase II study of intermittent androgen suppression for men with evidence of prostate-specific antigen recurrence after radiotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 858-867

  Bruchovsky, Nicholas ^a,d   Klotz, Laurence ^b   Crook, Juanita ^c   Goldenberg, S Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intermittent androgen suppression; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen nadir; Tumor progression

Indexed keywords

CYPROTERONE ACETATE; HEMOGLOBIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33847384225     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22464     Document Type: Article

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