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Overall Clinical Background
















              Castration still remains the basic foundation of therapy in advanced


              prostate cancer, 80 years after its initial report by Huggins and Hodges in


              1941.









                However, survival in advanced disease has improved significantly in the


                last decade owing to treatment intensification earlier in the course for


                the disease.
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