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. INDICE: 1 Applied Anatomy of the Prostate (Ashutosh Tewari & P. Sooriakumaran). 2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer (Ashish Chandra). 3 Biology of Prostate Cancer (Bill Watson and John Fitzpatrick). 4 Diagnosis (Declan Murphy). 5 Imaging of Prostate Cancer (Uday Patel and James E. Halls). 6 Screening for Prostate Cancer (Freddie Hamdy). 7 Active surveillance (Lars Holmberg & Gordon Muir).8 Open Radical Prostatectomy (Hein van Poppel & Wim van Haute). 9 Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (Declan Cahill). 10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy (BenChallacombe and Jim Peabody). 11 Bracytherapy (Pete Acher and Rick Popert). 12 HIFU (Charlotte Louise Dickinson, Hashim Ahmed and Mark Emberton). 13 Cryotherapy (Ali Henderson and John Davies). 14 Advances in External Beam radiotherapy (David Landau). 15 Recent advances in hormonal therapy (Heather Payne). 16 Chemotherapy of prostate cancer (Roger S. Kirby Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick). 17 Immunotherapy of prostate cancer (Oussama Elhage and Richard Smith). 18 New approaches to prostate cancer (Roger Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta).
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3437-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 80
- Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés