Prostate cancer is not breast cancer

Cancers of the prostate and breast are hormone dependent cancers. There is a tendency to equate them and apply same algorithms for treatment. It is pointed out that metastatic prostate cancer with bone-only disease is a potentially fatal condition with a much poorer prognosis than metastatic breast...

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Autor principal: Venniyoor, Ajit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051149
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.176980
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spelling pubmed-47953742016-04-05 Prostate cancer is not breast cancer Venniyoor, Ajit Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Review Article Cancers of the prostate and breast are hormone dependent cancers. There is a tendency to equate them and apply same algorithms for treatment. It is pointed out that metastatic prostate cancer with bone-only disease is a potentially fatal condition with a much poorer prognosis than metastatic breast cancer and needs a more aggressive approach. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4795374/ /pubmed/27051149 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.176980 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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