Treatment options in hormone resistant prostate cancer
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Treatment options in hormone resistant prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in humans. An estimated 189000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the USA in 2002, and an estimated 30200 will die as a result of the disease [1]. It is predominantly diagnosed in older men and is rarely diagnosed in men under the age of 40 in contrast with the observation that microscopic prostate cancer is present in 80–100% o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdf645