Prokar Dasgupta, Roger S. Kirby

ABC of Prostate Cancer (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK and US and the second most common worldwide. The ABC of Prostate Cancer provides fully illustrated guidance on the treatment and management of prostate cancer. It covers the biology, anatomy, and pathology of prostate cancer, screening, and active surveillance and monitoring. It presents an assessment of treatment options including prostatectomy, bracytherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, along with modern diagnostic tests and an overview of new approaches to prostate cancer. With an international author team, the ABC of Prostate Cancer is ideal for general practitioners, family physicians, specialist nurses, junior doctors, medical students and others working with prostate cancer patients and their families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444346909
• Artikelnr.: 38309861

Autorenporträt

Prokar Dasgupta is Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London Roger S. Kirby is Consultant Urologist, The Prostate Centre, London Foreword by Peter T. Scardino

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
vii Foreword
ix 1 Applied Anatomy of the Prostate
1 Prasanna Sooriakumaran
Karl-Dietrich Sievert
Abhishek Srivastava and Ashutosh Tewari 2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer
5 Murali Varma and Ashish Chandra 3 Biology of Prostate Cancer
8 R. William G. Watson and John M. Fitzpatrick 4 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
11 Robin Weston
Anthony J. Costello and Declan G. Murphy 5 Imaging of Prostate Cancer
14 James Halls and Uday Patel 6 Screening for Prostate Cancer
18 Richard J. Bryant and Freddie C. Hamdy 7 Active Surveillance
22 Judith Dockray
Pardeep Kumar
Lars Holmberg and Gordon Muir 8 Open Radical Prostatectomy
25 Wim van Haute and Hein van Poppel 9 Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
29 Pardeep Kumar and Declan Cahill 10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
33 Ben Challacombe and Jim Peabody 11 Prostate Brachytherapy
37 Peter Acher and Rick Popert 12 HIFU
40 Louise Dickinson
Hashim U. Ahmed and Mark Emberton 13 Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer
44 Alastair Henderson and John Davies 14 Advances in External Beam Radiotherapy
48 David Landau
Nadia Walsh and Asad Qureshi 15 Recent Advances in Hormonal Therapy
51 Heather Payne
Reena Davda and Mark R. Feneley 16 Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
54 Roger S. Kirby
Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick 17 Immunology of Prostate Cancer
57 Oussama Elhage
Christine Galustian
Richard Smith and Prokar Dasgupta 18 New Approaches to Prostate Cancer
63 Megan S. Schober
Roger S. Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta Index
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