## BACKGROUND. Nearly all cases of metastatic prostate carcinoma progress, after hormonal ablation, to a hormone refractory status. To the authors' knowledge no standard chemotherapy for patients with hormone refractory prostate carcinoma (HRPC) exists. In a prospective study, the efficacy and toxi
A Phase I/II study of weekly paclitaxel and 3 days of high dose oral estramustine in patients with hormone-refractory prostate carcinoma
β Scribed by Anna C. Ferrari; Abraham Chachoua; Harvinder Singh; Mark Rosenthal; Samir Taneja; Myron Bednar; John Mandeli; Franco Muggia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 91
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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