Androgen blockade: 18 as good as 36 months in radiotherapy-treated  prostate cancer

Androgen blockade: 18 as good as 36 months in radiotherapy-treated prostate cancer

24/03/2013

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Patients receiving radiotherapy for high-risk node-negative prostate cancer benefit as much from 18 months of androgen blockade as from the usual 36 months — but have fewer side effec

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Patients receiving radiotherapy for high-risk node-negative prostate cancer benefit as much from 18 months of androgen blockade as from the usual 36 months — but have fewer side effects — according to study findings announced at the 2013 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in Orlando. Dr Abdenour Nabid from Sherbrooke University in Quebec gave Peter Goodwin the details.



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