PC-SPES: Hope or hype?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3657-3659

  Kosty, Michael P ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; PC SPES; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HERBAL PREPARATION PC SPES; HERBAL PREPARATION PC-SPES; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GYNECOMASTIA; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; MALE; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WARFARIN;

EID: 4644343743     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.06.920     Document Type: Editorial

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