Challenges in prostate cancer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Winsor Bowsher and Adam Carter

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.99463
• Soggetto topico: Prostate - Cancer
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BowsherWinsor CarterAdam, Dr.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An update on biotechnology in the assessment of prostate cancer / Tim Lane, Jon Strefford and Tim Oliver -- What can we learn from breast cancer? / Ludger Barthelmes and Christopher A. Gately -- New serum markers for prostate cancer / Bernhard Brehmer, Antonios Makris and Gerhard Jakse -- The history of tissue recombination technology : current and future research / Kenichiro Ishii and Simon Hayward -- Why we cannot use the results of non-randomised trials to inform us about treatment for early prostate cancer? / Malcolm Mason and John Staffurth -- Equivocal PSA results and free total PSA ratio / Bob Djavan, Michael Dobrovits and Michael Marberger -- Equivocal prostate needle biopsies / Murali Varma and David Griffiths -- Prostate biopsy : how many cores and where from? / Richard Clements -- Counselling patients with early prostate cancer / Gail Beese and Christopher Edmunds -- The role of pelvic node dissection in prostate cancer / Owen Niall and Jamie Kearsley -- Laparoscopic radical prostectomy / Mark Wright -- Endocrine therapy for prostate cancer : the latest / A. Goyal and W. Bowsher -- The role of conservative policies in the treatment of prostate cancer / Stijn de Vries, Christopher Bangma and Fritz Schroder -- Complementary and alternative therapies for prostate cancer / Gary Deng and Barrie Cassileth -- Radical prostatectomy after radical radiotherapy / Amir Kaisary -- Treatment of renal impairment secondary to locally advanced prostate cancer / Paul Jones and Neil Fenn -- Open radical prostatectomy : how can intra-operative, peri-operative, and post-operative complications be prevented? / Robert P. Myers, R. Houston Thompson, Stephen M. Schatz and Michael L. Blute -- Documenting prostate cancer : epidemiology and treatment / Leslie Moffat -- Trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality / Steven Oliver, Rhidian Hurle and Owen Hughes -- Chemotherapy in prostate cancer / Jason Lester and Emma Hudson.
• Sommario/riassunto: Prostate cancer continues to be a major threat to men's health, the second most common cancer in men, in many countries. Therefore it is increasingly important that those faced with difficult clinical questions make the right decisions. Since the first volume was published in 2000, many debates persist but new controversies have also emerged, reflected in the chapters of this new volume. New authors have been recruited to give their insight into newer areas of this controversial topic. Challenges in prostate cancer provides a series of state-of-the-art review articles, each of which
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenges in prostate cancer
• ISBN: 1-280-74326-3; 9786610743261; 0-470-79578-6; 0-470-75500-8; 1-4051-7177-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910143291003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II