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Treatment-dependent androgen receptor mutations in prostate cancer exploit multiple mechanisms to evade therapy.
Cancer research - 15 May 2009
Steinkamp Mara P, O'Mahony Orla A, Brogley Michele, Rehman Haniya, Lapensee Elizabeth W, Dhanasekaran Saravana, Hofer Matthias D, Kuefer Rainer, Chinnaiyan Arul, Rubin Mark A, Pienta Kenneth J, Robins Diane M
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the androgen receptor (AR) that enable activation by antiandrogens occur in hormone-refractory prostate cancer, suggesting that mutant ARs are selected by treatment. To validate this hypothesis, we compared AR variants in metastases obtained by rapid autopsy of patients treated with flutamide or bicalutamide, or by excision of lymph node metastases from hormone-naïve patients. AR mutations occurred...
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