Therapeutic Strategies in Prostate Cancer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Feneley Mark
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.99/463; 616.9946306
• Soggetto topico: Prostate -- Cancer -- Treatment; Prostate -- Cancer; Prostatectomy; Radiotherapy; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Urogenital Neoplasms; Genital Diseases, Male; Neoplasms by Site; Male Urogenital Diseases; Diseases; Neoplasms; Prostatic Neoplasms
• Altri autori: PayneHeather
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors and Conributors; Section I: Prevention and diagnosis; Section II: Regional prostate cancer - localized and locallyadvanced cancer; Section III: Advanced prostate cancer - distant metastases; Section IV: Management of complications; Abbreviations; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Prostate cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all male cancers, and the incidence is rising as detection rates continue to improve, and life expectancy increases. Timely intervention affords a wider range of management options and in this new volume the editors review the choices available. In the first section lifestyle interventions, such as nutrition and screening, and evaluation of risk factors are discussed; then follows an update on management strategies for localised and locally advanced cancer in various risk groups, drawing on the results of the latest clinical trials. The third se
• Titolo autorizzato: Therapeutic Strategies in Prostate Cancer
• ISBN: 1-281-40852-2; 9786611408527; 1-84692-580-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996339091003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Therapeutic Strategies