A road map to comprehensive androgen receptor axis targeting for castration-resistant prostate cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4599-4605

  Mitsiades, Nicholas ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIRATERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARN 509; DUTASTERIDE; ENZALUTAMIDE; GALETERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; ORTERONEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CASTRATION; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 84881403991     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-4414     Document Type: Review

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