Testosterone levels in patients with metastatic prostate cancer treated with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone therapy: Prognostic significance?

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 648-651

  Perachino, Massimo ^a   Cavalli, Valerio ^a   Bravi, F ^a  

^a Ibis Informatica Srl ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

LHRH; Prostate cancer; Survival; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GOSERELIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GOSERELIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77149159440     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08814.x     Document Type: Article

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