Hormone therapy in breast and prostate cancer /

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Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Humana Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 420 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Series:Cancer drug discovery and development
Cancer drug discovery and development.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8892065
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Other authors / contributors:Jordan, V. Craig (Virgil Craig)
Furr, B. J. A.
ISBN:9781592591527
1592591523
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In Hormone Therapy in Breast and Prostate Cancer, many of today's leading researchers and clinicians describe the principles underlying targeted hormonal treatments, assess the actions of new and established agents, and illustrate the new applications of hormonal chemoprevention for breast cancer. Topics range from preclinical and clinical antiestrogens to the inhibition of estrogen synthesis and the effects of androgen withdrawal. A wide variety of proven and new agents are discussed-antiestrogens, including aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole, letrozole, and others), SERMs (tamoxifen, raloxife.
Other form:Print version: Hormone therapy in breast and prostate cancer. New York, N.Y. : Humana Press, 2009 9781607614715 1607614715