Increasing use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists for the treatment of localized prostate carcinoma
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Increasing use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists for the treatment of localized prostate carcinoma.
BACKGROUND The role of androgen deprivation therapy in prostate carcinoma is controversial in earlier stages of disease. The authors examined the time trends and patterns of use for androgen deprivation in the form of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists or orchiectomy, in population-based tumor registries. METHODS Data were obtained from the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology and En...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20955