Browsing by Subject "Medroxyprogesterone acetate"

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Effects of hormonal treatment on lipids in patients with cancer

Filippatos, T. D.; Liberopoulos, E. N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Elisaf, Moses S.; Mikhailidis, Dimitri P. (2009)

Patients with malignant disease may need hormonal therapy as primary or adjuvant treatment or for palliation. Oestrogens usually decrease serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol ...
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Randomized evidence on chemotherapy and hormonal therapy regimens for advanced endometrial cancer: An overview of survival data

Polyzos, N. P.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Paraskevaidis, E.; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2006)

Several chemotherapy and hormonal therapy regimens have been used in advanced endometrial cancer. In this review we have systematically evaluated the available data from randomized trials on survival. We searched MEDLINE, ...
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Survival with aromatase inhibitors and inactivators versus standard hormonal therapy in advanced breast cancer: Meta-analysis

Mauri, D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Polyzos, N. P.; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2006)

Background: Aromatase inhibitors and inactivators have been extensively tested in patients with advanced breast cancer, but it is unclear whether they offer any survival benefits compared with standard hormonal treatment ...