Prostate Cancer (eBook)

Diagnosis and Clinical Management

Ashutosh K. Tewari, Peter Whelan, John D. Graham (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-34739-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Do you manage patients with prostate
cancer?

Could you use an expert guide examining all possible
management options?

Prostate Cancer: diagnosis and clinical management
providesurologists and oncologists of all levels with up-to-date,
evidence-based guidance to the diagnosis, treatment and clinical
management of a disease which accounts for a quarter of all cancers
affecting men.

Designed to be as practical and accessible as possible, leading
experts discuss key issues in prostate cancer management and
examine how to deliver best practice in the clinical care of their
patients. Topics covered include:

* What must be considered when counseling newly-diagnosed cancer
patients

* Radical surgery options for prostate cancer

* Novel therapies for localized prostate cancer

* How should metastatic prostate cancer be diagnostic and
managed

* What are the best methods of administering end of life care for
the patient

Brought to you by a highly experienced editor team, and
containing key points, management algorithms, practice tips and the
latest AUA and EAU clinical guidelines, this is the ideal
consultation tool for doctors both on the wards and in the
office.

Autor

Ashutosh K. Tewari, M.D., M. Ch. Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Urologic- Oncology; Director, Center for Prostate Cancer, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA Peter Whelan, MS,FRCS, Emeritus Consultant Urological Surgeon, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, and Community NHS Urologist, Leeds, UK John D. Graham, FRCP, FRCR, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Beacon Centre, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK

Inhalt

Contributors, vii

Preface, x

1 Prostate Cancer Epidemiology, 1

Annie Darves-Bornoz, Joe Park, and Aaron Katz

2 Diagnosis and Screening, 16

Yiannis Philippou, Harveer Dev, and Prasanna
Sooriakumaran

3 Understanding the Histopathology, 34

Jon Oxley

4 Markers in Prostate Cancer, 49

Philippa J. Cheetham

5 Imaging, 72

Jonathan Richenberg

6 Counseling the Patient with Newly Diagnosed Prostate
Cancer, Stage by Stage, 116

Nicholas James Smith and William Richard Cross

7 Active Surveillance in the Management of Low-Risk Prostate
Cancer, 136

L. Boccon-Gibod

8 Radical Surgery, 145

Adnan Ali and Ashutosh Tewari

9 Radiation Therapy in the Management of Prostate Cancer,
170

J. Conibear and P.J. Hoskin

10 Novel Therapies for Localized Prostate Cancer,
191

Massimo Valerio, Mark Emberton, Manit Arya, and Hashim U.
Ahmed

11 Posttherapy Follow-up and First Intervention,
211

Ernesto R. Cordeiro, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Matias Westendarp,
Jean J.M.C.H. de la Rosette, and Theo M. de Reijke

12 Managing Rising PSA in Naive and Posttherapy Patients,
230

George Thalmann and Martin Spahn

13 Diagnosis and Management of Metastatic Prostate Cancer,
245

Bertrand Tombal and Frederic Lecouvet

14 New Therapies in Hormone Relapsed Disease, 265

Carmel Pezaro, Aurelius Omlin, Diletta Bianchini, and Johann de
Bono

15 End of Life Care in Prostate Cancer, 287

John D. Graham

16 The Long Perspective: Prostate Cancer as a Chronic
Disease, 298

Peter Whelan

17 The Future: What's in the Toolkit for Prostate
Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment?, 313

Norman J. Maitland

Index, 331

Color plate section can be found facing page 148

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.12.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Urologie
• Schlagworte: Chirurgie u. chirurgische Spezialgebiete • Medical Science • Medizin • Oncology & Radiotherapy • Onkologie u. Strahlentherapie • Surgery & Surgical Specialities • Urologie • Urology
• ISBN-10: 1-118-34739-0 / 1118347390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-34739-3 / 9781118347393