How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy alone for the treatment of hormone-resistant prostate cancer is associated with very poor objective response rates of less than 10%. No single agent or regimen has thus far shown a consistent impact on survival. As a result, there is no standard regimen and new agents and combinations a...

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Main Author: Wachira Kochakarn
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spelling th-mahidol.217462018-07-24T10:54:42Z How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy Wachira Kochakarn Mahidol University Medicine Chemotherapy alone for the treatment of hormone-resistant prostate cancer is associated with very poor objective response rates of less than 10%. No single agent or regimen has thus far shown a consistent impact on survival. As a result, there is no standard regimen and new agents and combinations are continually being investigated. In theory, it may be beneficial to start chemotherapy earlier in the disease, while the patient is still responding to hormonal therapy but when their PSA is already starting to rise. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 2018-07-24T03:54:42Z 2018-07-24T03:54:42Z 2004-01-01 Conference Paper European Urology, Supplements. Vol.3, No.1 (2004), 37-39 10.1016/j.eursup.2003.12.009 15699056 2-s2.0-1042289549 https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/21746 Mahidol University SCOPUS https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=1042289549&origin=inward
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How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
description Chemotherapy alone for the treatment of hormone-resistant prostate cancer is associated with very poor objective response rates of less than 10%. No single agent or regimen has thus far shown a consistent impact on survival. As a result, there is no standard regimen and new agents and combinations are continually being investigated. In theory, it may be beneficial to start chemotherapy earlier in the disease, while the patient is still responding to hormonal therapy but when their PSA is already starting to rise. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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title How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
title_short How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
title_full How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
title_fullStr How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed How the Addition of Hormones Improves Outcome: Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy
title_sort how the addition of hormones improves outcome: hormone therapy and chemotherapy
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