The potential side effects of prostate cancer treatment, for example loss of potency or bladder function, can be life-changing and I am passionate about trying to improve outcomes for my patients.
Study potential side effects.
Know the potential side effects.
As a practical matter, that often means arriving at a balance between potency and side effects.
Bob Huff, who edits a newsletter on new treatments for the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a patient advocacy group in New York, said a drug's potency and side effects were more important to patients than convenience.
Future directions include (i) establishing therapeutic acne vaccines that may benefit patients with severe acne and (ii) comparing the potency and side effects of sialidase-based vaccines with current medicines.
Emergent themes are organised under therapeutic systems, contraceptives as objects, and potency and side effects.
Pharmacodynamics, which is the investigation of the quantitative relationships between drug concentrations and effects over time, provides valuable information on drug potency, toxicity, side effects, and mechanisms of action.
HDAC inhibitors initially attracted attention in the oncology field due to their proapoptotic and cell cycle arrest actions on malignant cells, but how these effects relate to the activity on HIV production in terms of potency and side effects is largely unknown.
Cutaneous, potency-related side effects (eg, skin atrophy, striae, telangiectasias, acne rosacea, and perioral dermatitis) limit the long-term use of these agents.
