Prostate cancer, version 1.2014

James L Mohler1, Philip W Kantoff, Andrew J Armstrong

  • 1From 1Roswell Park Cancer Institute; 2Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center; 3Duke Cancer Institute; 4The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; 5Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah; 6Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 7Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center; 8Prostate Health Education Network; 9University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; 10Fox Chase Cancer Center; 11City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; 12Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 13Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; 14Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; 15University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center; 16Moffitt Cancer Center; 17St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 18UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; 19The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; 20Patient Advocate; 21Stanford Cancer Institute; 22Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine; 23The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; and 24National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

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