Dose Reduction May Jeopardize Efficacy of Abiraterone Acetate

F J Sherida H Woei-A-Jin1, Tine Van Nieuwenhuyse1, Nielka P van Erp1

  • 1F.J. Sherida H. Woei-A-Jin, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Tine Van Nieuwenhuyse, University Hospitals Leuven; and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Nielka P. van Erp, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Benoit Beuselinck and Stephanie Stroobants, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Dirk Jan A.R. Moes and Susanne Osanto, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; and Isabel Spriet, University Hospitals Leuven; and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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