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G Williams

Publications and source records attributed to G Williams.

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Experience with an LHRH analogue in the management of relapsed progressive prostatic cancer.

Seventeen patients with advanced progressive prostatic cancer who had relapsed or failed to respond to conventional endocrine therapy with oestrogens, orchiectomy or antiandrogens were treated with the LHRH analogue, ICI 118630. No significant objective tumour responses were seen, though 11 of 15 patients who presented with symptomatic metastatic bone pain had rapid short-term pain relief. The lack of objective clinical response seen in this study indicates no justification for the use of LHRH analogues in this group of patients. Though a significant subjective response was seen there was no added advantage over regular analgesics.

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Advanced carcinoma of the prostate: treatment with a gonadotrophin releasing hormone agonist.

Ten patients with advanced progressive adenocarcinoma of the prostate were treated with a long acting analogue of gonadotrophin releasing hormone. Eight of these patients responded to treatment in terms of pain relief and clinical regression of tumour. Serum gonadotrophin and testosterone concentrations were significantly suppressed by the end of the second week of treatment, testosterone concentrations being comparable with those achieved by castration. The two patients who failed to respond had both relapsed previously when receiving conventional treatment, and neither showed any endocrine response to the analogue. Superagonists of gonadotrophin releasing hormone may be the treatment of choice in adenocarcinoma of the prostate, but further trials are required to establish long term safety and efficacy.

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