The role of hormonal treatment in prostate cancer.
Recent Results Cancer Res
; 175: 211-37, 2007.
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| ID: mdl-17432562
ABSTRACT
In 1941 Huggins and Hodges published for the first time the favorable effects of surgical castration and estrogen treatment on the progression of metastatic prostate cancer. However, this hormonal therapy is not without side effects. Since this pioneering milestone in history of prostate cancer, a further tremendous innovation did not take place. Today, due to intensive clinical, biochemical, nuclear-biological and molecular-biological research, many hormone active treatment variations are available. Besides traditional hormonal therapy, surgical or chemical castration, maximal androgen blockade, nontraditional forms of hormonal therapy, intermittent hormonal therapy, antiandrogens, 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors, and their combinations, we discuss options toward creating an increased number of side effect-oriented offers of hormonal treatment options, guaranteeing a longer and more comfortable exhaustion of the individual hormonal period of response and probably a longer survival. The prerequisite is a closer-than-ever monitoring by tumor marker and an early observation of symptomatic changes.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Próstata
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Antineoplásicos Hormonais
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Antagonistas de Androgênios
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Neoplasias Hormônio-Dependentes
Limite:
Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article