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SUBMITTER: Payne H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3242586 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
British journal of cancer 20111018 11
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has traditionally formed the mainstay of treatment for advanced/metastatic prostate cancer (PCa); however, it is now also having an increasingly important role in earlier stages of disease. Indeed, in patients with locally advanced or high-risk localised disease, the addition of neoadjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy is now considered the standard of care for those men treated with radical radiotherapy. Although luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) ag ...[more]