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Prostate cancer : principles and practice / Jacob Ramon, Louis J. Denis, editors ; contributors Claude Clement Abbou [and fourteen others] ; Nadja Kroke, production editor ; Frido Steinen-Broo, cover design.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostate--Cancer.
- Prostate.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is the first interdisciplinary medical text on prostate cancer. More than 50 chapters cover all aspects of diagnosis and screening and all forms of accepted treatments of the prostate, with emphasis on the retention of sexual and physiological function. Highlights of the book include the most exhaustive coverage currently available of advanced androgen-sensitive and androgen-refractory disease. An introductory chapter discusses the impact of advances in genetic understanding of prostate cancer on clinical practice. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.
- Contents:
- ""cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Editor""; ""Preface""; ""International Prostate Health Council""; ""Contents ""; ""1 - Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer""; ""2 - Natural History of Prostatic Carcinoma The Pathologist's Perspective""; ""3 - Prognostic Factors in Prostate Cancer""; ""4 - The Prevention of Prostate Cancer""; ""5 - Prostate Cancer Screening""; ""6 - Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer""; ""7 - Does Localized Prostate Cancer Exist""; ""8 - Staging of Prostate Cancer""; ""9 - Guidelines and Counselling for Treatment Options in the Management of Prostate Cancer""; ""10 - Choices for Surgery""
- ""11 - Radiation Therapy in Prostate Cancer""""12 - Cryoablation and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound""; ""13 - The Role of Hormonal Treatment in Prostate Cancer""; ""14 - Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer""; ""15 - Prostate Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life""; ""16 - Europa Uomo The European Prostate Cancer Coalition""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7454-7
- OCLC:
- 908670459
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