Prostate Cancer Prevention: Do the 5-ARIs Make the Grade?

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 30-31

  Parnes, Howard L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

BLOOD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857074093     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2011.626666     Document Type: Article

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