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ArticleReviews in urology2010

Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy: redefining the standard of care?

Neal D Shore, E David Crawford

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Article in Reviews in urology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Neal D Shore
E David Crawford

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a clinical strategy, intermittent androgen deprivation therapy (IADT) has the potential to minimize adverse events associated with continuous androgen deprivation therapy while providing comparable efficacy for patients with advanced prostate cancer. Because most studies supporting IADT to date have been somewhat small and underpowered, additional large, randomized, controlled trials are needed before this strategy becomes the standard of care. However, the potential advantages of IADT, which include improved quality of life, the theoretical possibility of delaying hormone resistance, and possible reduction in expenses to the patient and health care payers, suggest it is a strategy worth further exploration.

Indexed as

Androgen deprivation therapyHormonal therapyProstate cancerProstate-specific antigenTestosterone

Identifiers

PMID20428288
PMCPMC2859136

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