A clinical data validated mathematical model of prostate cancer growth under intermittent androgen suppression therapy

Prostate cancer is commonly treated by a form of hormone therapy called androgen suppression. This form of treatment, while successful at reducing the cancer cell population, adversely affects quality of life and typically leads to a recurrence of the cancer in an androgen-independent form. Intermit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Travis Portz, Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3697848