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Response to low-dose ketoconazole and subsequent dose escalation to high-dose ketoconazole in patients with androgen-independent prostate cancer
Article first published online: 21 JUL 2006
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22085
Copyright © 2006 American Cancer Society
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Nakabayashi, M., Xie, W., Regan, M. M., Jackman, D. M., Kantoff, P. W. and Oh, W. K. (2006), Response to low-dose ketoconazole and subsequent dose escalation to high-dose ketoconazole in patients with androgen-independent prostate cancer. Cancer, 107: 975–981. doi: 10.1002/cncr.22085
Publication History
- Issue published online: 21 AUG 2006
- Article first published online: 21 JUL 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 9 MAY 2006
- Manuscript Revised: 12 APR 2006
- Manuscript Received: 9 FEB 2006
Funded by
- C. Brendan Noonan Charitable Foundation
- Bing Sound Wong Fund for Prostate Cancer Research
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