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Medical Castration

Refers to the use of drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries or testicles.
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2012
2012
Changes in Electrocardiogram Findings during Treatment with Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist and Surgical Castration for Prostate Carcinoma
Purpose: To investigate electrocardiogram (ECG) changes after complete androgen blockade (CAB) achieved by either surgical or… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Bicalutamide 150 mg A Review of its Use in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
Various sections of the manuscript reviewed by: P.-A. Abrahamsson, Department of Urology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund… 
1998
1998
黄体化ホルモン放出ホルモン誘導体 (LHRH-a) による骨量低下の臨床的検討
1996
1996
Casodex: Preclinical Studies
The established treatment for prostate cancer is endocrine manipulation since the growth of a majority of prostate tumours is… 
1992
1992
Failure of buserelin-induced medical castration to control pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis in two patients.
Two women, aged 44 and 29 years, respectively, were admitted to the hospital in early 1987 for recurrent pneumothorax, dyspnea… 
1991
1991
Orchidectomy or LHRH-analogue? Which do the patients prefer and what treatment would Norwegian urologists prefer if they had advanced cancer of the prostate?
Since January 1989, we have carried out a prospective study about whether patients prefer orchidectomy or medical castration with… 
1990
1990
Testicular histology after treatment with LH-RH analogue for carcinoma of the prostate.
Orchiectomy was performed in 16 patients because of progression of prostatic cancer despite adequate medical castration with… 
1986
1986
Predicting the predisposition to osteoporosis. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist for acute estrogen deficiency test.
  • R. AbbasiG. Hodgen
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 21406424
A reliable predictive test to identify perimenopausal women who are vulnerable to the adverse effects of severe estrogen… 
1982
1982
Endocrine studies with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue to achieve withdrawal of testosterone in prostate carcinoma patients.
This investigation on 12 well-defined patients with untreated, advanced prostatic adenocarcinoma establishes the gonadotropin… 
1981
1981
Medical castration with megestrol acetate and minidose of diethylstilbestrol.
BACKGROUND: The current standard for Prostate Cancer (PCa) detection in biopsy-naive men consists of 10-12 systematic biopsies…