Titlebook: Genitourinary Cancer; Basic and Clinical A Timothy L. Ratliff,William J. Catalona Book 1987 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston 1987 Stagin

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Monoclonal antibodies and urologic oncology: antigenic expression on genitourinary tumors,nology. It has created the tantalizing possibility of resolving such basic issues as the existence of tumor-specific antigens in human cancer, and the nature of patients’ humoral immune response to their tumors. In addition, the application of mAbs to the diagnosis and therapy of cancer promises to

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Editorial Comment,y arising tumor cells. Production of antibodies to such putative tumor-specific antigens (TSAs) or tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) by conventional immunization, has been largely unsuccessful. However, the requisite specificity and molecular homogeneity of monoclonal antibody preparations has given

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LHRH Agonists and Antiandrogens in Prostate Cancer,ity, previously occult cases of prostate cancer have enough time to become clinically important, thus possibly explaining the increasing rate of death from prostate cancer in the West [2]. Due to the presence of bone metastases in the majority of patients at the time of diagnosis, the possibility of

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Editorial Comment,ostatic cancer may be stimulated by androgens of adrenal origin has led to previous efforts to ablate adrenal androgen production. Several factors have, however, led to renewed interest in the subject. First, improved biochemical assay methods have allowed identification of what appear to be signifi

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Editorial Comment,ghlighted the importance of basic research and its contribution in establishing the role of non-specific active immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer in humans. He has rightly emplasized that the frequently reported success of immunotherapy in experimental tumor systems has rarely been reproduce

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Skin: Architecture and Function,drogens has allowed pharmacologic deprivation of both adrenal and testicular androgen from the prostatic cancer cell and decreased the morbidity of treatment. Finally, the enthusiasm and zeal with which Dr. Labrie and colleagues have promoted this subject have generated widespread interest within the lay public.

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Editorial Comment,drogens has allowed pharmacologic deprivation of both adrenal and testicular androgen from the prostatic cancer cell and decreased the morbidity of treatment. Finally, the enthusiasm and zeal with which Dr. Labrie and colleagues have promoted this subject have generated widespread interest within the lay public.

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0927-3042 cology textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers in specialized journals are informative but seldom comprehensive; these are more often preliminary reports on a very limited number of patients. Certain general journals frequently publish good indepth reviews of cancer topics, and published