Emerging mechanisms of resistance to androgen receptor inhibitors in prostate cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 701-711

  Watson, Philip A ^a   Arora, Vivek K ^b   Sawyers, Charles L ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIRATERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIANDROGEN; APALUTAMIDE; BICALUTAMIDE; DEGARELIX; ENZALUTAMIDE; FLUTAMIDE; GALETERONE; GOSERELIN; HISTRELIN; LEUPRORELIN; NILUTAMIDE; ODM 201; TESTOSTERONE; TRIPTORELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIANDROGEN THERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; DISEASE CONTROL; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84948717393     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc4016     Document Type: Review

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