Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management

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Ashutosh K. Tewari, Peter Whelan, John D. Graham
John Wiley & Sons, 23 gru 2013 - 352

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.

 

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Transrectal ultrasoundguided biopsy
Cover
Preface
Diagnosis and Screening
New Therapies in Hormone Relapsed Disease
Tumor markers
Molecular urine markers
Endof LifeCare in Prostate Cancer
Radiation Therapy in the Management
Introduction Minimally
HIFU
Acknowledgments
Evidence synthesis
References
Managing RisingPSA in Naiveand Posttherapy Patients
Diagnosis

Imaging Introduction
Counseling thePatient withNewly Diagnosed
ActiveSurveillance intheManagement of Low Risk Prostate Cancer Introduction Patient selection
Radical Surgery
The Long Perspective Prostate Canceras
Chapter
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Cancer
17
Introduction
20
Genetic markers of familial and sporadicprostate cancers Chemoprevention Heterogeneity andprostate
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Informacje o autorze (2013)

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

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