Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO (AP) -- A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread....
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