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  • noun medicine A pyridine-substituted sterol used as a drug against prostate cancer

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Examples

  • The green light from the European Medicines Agency is the result of a fast-track review process for Zytiga, also known as abiraterone acetate, and was expected after EMA advisers endorsed the treatment in July.

    J&J Cancer Drug Gets European Approval Sten Stovall 2011

  • The drug, known by its chemical name abiraterone, also prolonged life by about four months in clinical trials.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • A new trial drug called abiraterone has shown a high success rate at treating men with an aggressive, drug resistant, and often fatal form of prostate cancer. 70 to 80 per cent of the men on the trial experienced dramatic ...

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • The novel agent abiraterone, which is still in early-phase clinical trials, may provide anti-cancer responses in patients whose prostate cancer progressed following androgen deprivation therapy.

    unknown title 2008

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