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SUBMITTER: Puente J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5424862 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Puente Javier J Grande Enrique E Medina Ana A Maroto Pablo P Lainez Nuria N Arranz Jose Angel JA
Therapeutic advances in medical oncology 20170301 5
The increasing knowledge of prostate cancer is leading to many questions about its natural history and to reconsider conventional therapeutic strategies. Androgen ablation therapy has been the standard therapy in the advanced setting. Although docetaxel has demonstrated increased survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer who had progressed to hormone treatments, due to its potential toxicity the role of chemotherapy has been relegated to patients who were symptomatic or who had high t ...[more]