Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Clinical Management

by Tewari, Ashutosh K.; Whelan, Peter; Graham, John D.

• ISBN13: 9781118347355
• ISBN10: 1118347358
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-03-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

1 Prostate cancer and epidemiology    
Aaron Katz, Annie Darves & Joe Park

2 Diagnosis and screening
Yiannis Philippou, Harveer Dev and Prasanna Sooriakumaran

3 Understanding Histopathology
Jonathan Oxley

4 Markers in prostate cancer
Philippa J Cheetham

5 Imaging
Jonathan Richenberg

6 Counseling the patient with newly diagnosed prostate cancer, stage by stage
Nicholas James Smith and William Richard Cross

7 Active surveillance in the management of low risk prostate cancer
L.Boccon-Gibod

8 Radical surgery
Adnan Ali, Ashutosh Tewari

9 Radiation therapy in the management of prostate cancer
J. Conibear and P.J Hoskin

10  Novel therapies for localized prostate cancer
Massimo Valerio, Mark Emberton, Manit Arya and Hashim U. Ahmed

11 Post therapy follow-up and first intervention
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 post therapy patients
George Thalmann and Martin Spahn

13 Diagnostic and management of metastatic prostate cancer
Bertrand Tombal and Frederic Lecouvet

14 New therapies in hormone relapsed disease
Carmel Pezaro, Aurelius Omlin, Diletta Bianchini, and Johann de Bono

15 End of life care in prostate cancer
John Graham

16 The long perspective: prostate cancer as a chronic disease
Peter Whelan

17 The future: what’s in the toolkit for prostate cancer diagnosis and the treatment?
Norman Maitland