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Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2, 66 (1 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncponc0095

Is total androgen blockade useful in metastatic prostate cancer?

Ansari MS et al. (2004) Combined androgen blockade in the management of advanced prostate cancer: a sensible or ostensible approach. Int J Urol 11: 1092–1096 A recent study by Ansari and colleagues has shown that orchiectomy alone was equally as effective as orchiectomy plus flutamide in the treatment of men with metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.