基本説明
Provides an easy to read guide to the modern management of prostate cancer and a summary of the current state of the art in treatment options in accordance with the 2008 NICE guidelines.
Full Description
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.
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
