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CASE REPORT
Androgen deprivation therapy for patients with prostate carcinoma and Parkinson’s disease: case report and review of literature
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Address correspondence to Dr. Mohamed A. Elshaikh,
Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Hospital,
2799 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, Michigan 48202 USA
Canadian Journal of Urology 2009, 16(1), 4495-4497.
Abstract
We report a case history of a patient with Parkinson’s disease (PD) treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and external beam radiation for prostate cancer, who developed severe deterioration of his PD during ADT.Keywords
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Copyright © 2009 The Author(s). Published by Tech Science Press.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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