Review: Cooperative group trials — Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) innovations in advanced prostate cancer
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The changing clinical dynamics of prostate cancer have resulted in a broadening of the research focus of the Genitourinary (GU) Cancer Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG). Beginning with an emphasis on hormone-refractory disease in its early years, SWOG prostate cancer trials now cover the entire spectrum of the disease: localized, locally advanced, metastatic and hormone-refractor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1758-8359,1758-8359
DOI: 10.1177/1758834009343454