Complete Response to Bicalutamide Withdrawal Prolonged for Almost 2 Years in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Hiroshi Hongo1, Takeo Kosaka1, Mototsugu Oya1

  • 1Department of Urology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Urology Case Reports
|March 10, 2016
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