Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Overall Survival for Gleason 8 Versus Gleason 9-10 Prostate Cancer

Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

AN D R O G E N D E P R I V A T I O N t h e r a p y ( A D T ; h e r e i n defined as medical or surgical castration) is the cornerstone treatment of advanced prostate cancer. In 1941, Huggins and Hodges first noted the beneficial effects of castration and injection of estrogens in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. The biological basis of the effect of ADT, the almost ubiquitous expressio...

Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.

CONTEXT Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin cancer and second most common cause of cancer mortality in US men. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), specifically surgical or medical castration, is the first line of treatment against advanced prostate cancer and is also used as an adjuvant to local treatment of high-risk disease. OBJECTIVE To review systematically the evidence on the risk...

Intermittent versus continuous androgen deprivation therapy in advanced prostate cancer.

Intermittent androgen deprivation is increasingly employed as an alternative to continuous life long androgen deprivation therapy for men with advanced or recurrent prostate cancer. Two recent phase III trials have clarified the benefits of intermittent therapy. In men with non-metastatic disease with PSA recurrence after definitive local therapy, intermittent therapy showed equivalent survival...

Gleason grading of prostate cancer. Contemporary approach.