Landmarks in hormonal therapy for prostate cancer
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Peter Hammerer
Department of Urology, Academic Hospital Braunschweig
Professor Peter Hammerer, Department Urology, Academic Hospital Braunschweig, Salzdahlumer Strasse 90, Braunschweig, Germany. e-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorStephan Madersbacher
Department of Urology and Andrology, Danube Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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Peter Hammerer
Department of Urology, Academic Hospital Braunschweig
Professor Peter Hammerer, Department Urology, Academic Hospital Braunschweig, Salzdahlumer Strasse 90, Braunschweig, Germany. e-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorStephan Madersbacher
Department of Urology and Andrology, Danube Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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It is >70 years since the responsiveness of symptomatic metastatic prostate cancer to androgen deprivation was first demonstrated.
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Since those pivotal studies, progress in hormonal therapy of prostate cancer has been marked by several important developments and the availability of various androgen-suppressing agents.
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Treatment guidelines have continued to evolve with clinical and therapeutic progress, but androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the standard of care for non-localised prostate cancer.
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Because of the long-term experience (>20 years) and wealth of evidence from the large number of clinical trials, the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists are currently the main forms of ADT.
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Treatment strategies should be adapted to the individual patient in terms of timing, duration and choice of agent.
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Prostate cancer remains the most common type of cancer in men and the development of castration-resistant disease seems inevitable, which together drive the clear and continuing need for new, effective agents for ADT to be used alongside the LHRH agonists.
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