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Cancer Council Australia Advanced Prostate Cancer Guidelines Working Party. Guidelines:Prostate cancer/Management/Locally advanced and metastatic/Abbreviations . In: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. Sydney: Cancer Council Australia. [Version URL: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australiawiki/index.php?oldid=71970, cited 2023 Nov 29]. Available from: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Prostate_cancer/Management/Locally_advanced_and_metastatic.

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ADT	Androgen deprivation therapy
BMD	Bone mineral density
CAB	Combined androgen blockade
CAM	Complementary and alternative therapies
CI	Confidence interval (see Glossary)
CRPC	Castration-resistant prostate cancer
CT	Computed tomography
DES	Diethylstilbestrol
DEXA	Dual energy x-ray absorptionmetry
EBRT	External beam radiotherapy
EORTC	European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
GnRH	Gonadotrophin releasing hormone
Gy	A unit of absorbed radiation = to 1rad
HR	Hormone resistant
IGRT	Intensity modulated radiation treatment
IMRT	Image guided radiation treatment
IV	intra-venous
LHRH	Luteinising hormone releasing hormone
M1	Evidence of metastatic disease
M0	No evidence of metastases
MRI	Magnetic resonance imaging
MSCC	Metastatic spinal cord compression
PBS	Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – Australian Government
PET	Positron emission tomography
PSA	Prostate specific antigen
QCT	Quantitative computerised tomography
QOL	Quality of life
RANK	Receptor activator of nuclear kappa B
RCT	Randomised controlled trial
RR	Relative risk
RTOG	Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
SES	Socioeconomic status
SRE	Skeletal-related events
SWOG	South Western Oncology Group
TROG	Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group
TURP	Trans-urethral resection of the prostate (see Glossary)
XRT	X-ray therapy