High level of androgen receptor is associated with aggressive clinicopathologic features and decreased biochemical recurrence-free survival in prostate: cancer …

R Li, T Wheeler, H Dai, A Frolov… - The American journal …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) is androgen dependent and is regulated by
androgen/androgen receptor (AR) signaling pathway. However, the clinical significance of …

Androgen receptor expression is associated with prostate cancer‐specific survival in castrate patients with metastatic disease

MJ Donovan, I Osman, FM Khan… - BJU …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Study Type–Aetiology (case series) Level of Evidence 4 OBJECTIVE To investigate whether
baseline (before treatment) clinical variables and tumour specimen characteristics (including …

Altered expression of androgen receptor in the malignant epithelium and adjacent stroma is associated with early relapse in prostate cancer

SM Henshall, DI Quinn, CS Lee, DR Head, D Golovsky… - Cancer research, 2001 - AACR
The molecular basis of androgen-independent prostate cancer is unknown; however,
functional androgen receptor (AR) signaling is maintained after the acquisition of hormone …

Androgen receptor expression in clinically localized prostate cancer: immunohistochemistry study and literature review

YQ Qiu, I Leuschner, PM Braun - Asian journal of andrology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim: To evaluate androgen receptor (AR) expression in clinically localized prostate cancer
(PCa). Methods: Specimens were studied from 232 patients who underwent radical …

Androgen receptor amplification is associated with increased cell proliferation in prostate cancer

K Haapala, T Kuukasjärvi, E Hyytinen, I Rantala… - Human pathology, 2007 - Elsevier
Mechanisms of prostate cancer progression during hormonal therapy and the pathobiologic
consequences of androgen receptor (AR) gene amplification are inadequately known. To …

Heterogeneity of androgen receptor content in advanced prostate cancer.

C Magi-Galluzzi, X Xu, L Hlatky… - Modern pathology: an …, 1997 - europepmc.org
The principal mode of treatment of advanced (late stage) prostate cancer is androgen
ablation. Although the response rate to hormonal ablation is high, relapse ultimately leading …

A role for the androgen-receptor in clinically localized and advanced prostate cancer

JL Mohler - Best practice & research Clinical endocrinology & …, 2008 - Elsevier
Earlier studies of androgen-receptor (AR) expression using frozen prostate tissue, and later
studies using archived specimens, produced the consensus that ligand-stabilized AR is …

Androgen receptor levels in prostate cancer epithelial and peritumoral stromal cells identify non‐organ confined disease

C Ricciardelli, CS Choong, G Buchanan… - The …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Although up to 30% of men who undergo radical prostatectomy for clinically
organ‐confined prostate cancer will relapse with disseminated disease, currently it is not …

Androgen receptor gene and hormonal therapy failure of prostate cancer.

P Koivisto, M Kolmer, T Visakorpi… - The American journal of …, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Androgen receptor (AR) is a nuclear transcription factor that binds male sex steroids and
mediates the biological effects of these hormones to the target cells, such as the epithelial …

Low stroma androgen receptor level in normal and tumor prostate tissue is related to poor outcome in prostate cancer patients

P Wikström, J Marusic, P Stattin, A Bergh - The Prostate, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The role of androgen receptors (ARs) in the prostate tumor cell environment
is largely unknown. METHODS AR immunostaining was evaluated in relation to stroma …