The importance of combined radiation and endocrine therapy in locally advanced prostate cancer

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（2）
• 页码范围: 245-246
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1038/aja.2011.177

摘要

The management of all stages of prostate cancer has become an increasingly complex task as new treatment paradigms are tested and the results of large randomized studies become available.Despite these advances,prostate cancer remains the second leading cause of eancer death and the seventh overall cause of death in men in the United States.1 The advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in the 1980s resulted in a significant downward stage migration such that many men now present with the earliest and most curable form of the disease.2,3 Despite this fact,high-risk locally advanced prostate cancer remains a common and complex problem facing clinicians across the world.