866 PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN AND SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE LEVELS IN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS RECEIVING DEGARELIX OR LEUPROLIDE
✍ Scribed by Crawford, E. David; Moul, Judd W.; Shore, Neal D.; Kold Olesen, Tine; Persson, Bo-Eric
- Book ID
- 121969658
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 183
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5347
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Study Type – Therapy (RCT) Level of Evidence 1b ## OBJECTIVE To compare the activity of degarelix, a new gonadotrophin‐releasing hormone (GnRH) blocker, with leuprolide depot 7.5 mg in the control of total serum alkaline phosphatase (S‐ALP) levels in patients with prostate cancer. ## PATIENTS AND
## Abstract ## BACKGROUND. Higher prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) and alkaline phosphatase (ALK‐P) levels predicted worse survival in men with metastatic hormone‐refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). In the current study, the authors evaluated the combined effects of PSA and ALK‐P on survival. ## ME