基本説明
前立腺癌の最も重要な予後マーカーであるグリーソン分類を包括的に解説し、病理だけでなく関連する臨床との相関や予後も取り扱うテキスト。多数の写真を収載し、泌尿器科専門医、放射線治療医、腫瘍医にとって極めて重要な臨床関連事項を詳細に検討し、針生検から根治的前立腺全摘除術までのアップグレードやダウングレードの予測、グリーソン分類の経時的変化のリスク、第3段階のパターンの重要性、様々なグリーソンスコアと多様な治療法に関連する予後と意味、などを取り上げる。
Full Description
The Gleason Grading System: A Complete Guide for Pathologists and Clinicians provides exhaustive coverage of the updated Gleason Grading System, which deals not only with pathology but also with the associated clinical correlations and prognosis.
The Gleason Grading System is the most important prognostic marker of prostate cancer, which is critical to patient management and drives therapies across all disciplines dealing with prostate cancer. In addition to an extensive number of photographs, this book discusses in detail clinically related issues that are crucial for the urologist, radiotherapist, and oncologist to know, such as predicting upgrading and downgrading from needle biopsy to radical prostatectomy, risk of Gleason grading change over time, significance of tertiary grade patterns, and prognosis and implications related to various Gleason scores and different therapies. Images that were particularly difficult for contributing pathologists sent in for consultation are used in addition to classic examples, as these cases are the most informative in showing the difficulties with Gleason grading. This book is a valuable tool not only for surgical pathologists from the resident level to seasoned practitioners but also for urology residents, urologists, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists.
