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9781444334371

ABC of Prostate Cancer

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444334371

  • ISBN10:

    1444334379

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-27
  • Publisher: BMJ Books

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Summary

Table of Contents Anatomy Pathology Biology Diagnosis Imaging Screening Radical prostatectomy Robotic radical prostatectomy Bracytherapy HIFU Cryotherapy Advances in External Beam radiotherapy Recent advances in hormonal therapy Chemotherapy of prostate cancer Immunotherapy of prostate cancer

Author Biography

Prokar Dasgupta is Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, King's College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Roger S. Kirby is Consultant Urologist, The Prostate Centre, London

Foreword by Peter T. Scardino

Table of 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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