Hormone therapy in breast and prostate cancer /

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.
Subject:	Breast -- Cancer -- Hormone therapy. Prostate -- Cancer -- Hormone therapy. Estrogen -- Antagonists -- Therapeutic use. Antiandrogens -- Therapeutic use. Breast Neoplasms -- drug therapy. Prostatic Neoplasms -- drug therpy. Androgen Antagonists -- therapeutic use. Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal -- therapeutic use. Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators -- therapeutic use. Tamoxifen -- therapeutic use. Antiandrogens -- Therapeutic use. Breast -- Cancer -- Hormone therapy. Estrogen -- Antagonists -- Therapeutic use. Prostate -- Cancer -- Hormone therapy.
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. Description based on print version record.
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

Description
Summary:	This book describes the principles underlying targeted hormonal treatments, assesses the actions of new and established agents, and illustrates the new applications of hormonal chemoprevention for breast cancer.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 420 p.) : ill.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781592591527 1592591523