|  | Dasgupta, Prokar / Kirby, Roger
ABC of Prostate Cancer
ABC Series
 1. Edition December 2011
30.90 Euro
2011. 80 Pages, Softcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN 978-1-4443-3437-1 - John Wiley & Sons
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The ABC of Prostate Cancer provides guidance on the treatment and management of prostate cancer. It covers the biology and pathology of prostate cancer, screening and diagnosis, and active surveillance. It then provides an assessment of the available treatment options.
From the contents
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, 67
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