Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118347358 ISBN 13: 9781118347355

Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

Do you manage patients with prostate cancer? 

Could you use an expert guide examining all possible management options?

Prostate Cancer: diagnosis and clinical management providesurologists and oncologists of all levels with up-to-date, evidence-based guidance to the diagnosis, treatment and clinical management of a disease which accounts for a quarter of all cancers affecting men.

Designed to be as practical and accessible as possible, leading experts discuss key issues in prostate cancer management and examine how to deliver best practice in the clinical care of their patients.  Topics covered include:

• What must be considered when counseling newly-diagnosed cancer patients
• Radical surgery options for prostate cancer
• Novel therapies for localized prostate cancer
• How should metastatic prostate cancer be diagnostic and managed
• What are the best methods of administering end of life care for the patient

Brought to you by a highly experienced editor team, and containing key points, management algorithms, practice tips and the latest AUA and EAU clinical guidelines, this is the ideal consultation tool for doctors both on the wards and in the office.

About this title

About the Author

Ashutosh K. Tewari, M.D., M. Ch. Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Urologic-
Oncology; Director, Center for Prostate Cancer, Weill Cornell Medical College
and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

Peter Whelan, MS,FRCS, Emeritus Consultant Urological Surgeon, St. James’s
University Hospital, Leeds, and Community NHS Urologist, Leeds, UK

John D. Graham, FRCP, FRCR, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Beacon
Centre, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK

From the Back Cover

Do you manage patients with prostate cancer?

Could you use an expert guide examining all possible management options?

Prostate Cancer: diagnosis and clinical management providesurologists and oncologists of all levels with up-to-date, evidence-based guidance to the diagnosis, treatment and clinical management of a disease which accounts for a quarter of all cancers affecting men.

Designed to be as practical and accessible as possible, leading experts discuss key issues in prostate cancer management and examine how to deliver best practice in the clinical care of their patients. Topics covered include:

• What must be considered when counseling newly-diagnosed cancer patients
• Radical surgery options for prostate cancer
• Novel therapies for localized prostate cancer
• How should metastatic prostate cancer be diagnostic and managed
• What are the best methods of administering end of life care for the patient

Brought to you by a highly experienced editor team, and containing key points, management algorithms, practice tips and the latest AUA and EAU clinical guidelines, this is the ideal consultation tool for doctors both on the wards and in the office.

From the Inside Flap

Do you manage patients with prostate cancer? 

Could you use an expert guide examining all possible management options?

Prostate Cancer: diagnosis and clinical management providesurologists and oncologists of all levels with up-to-date, evidence-based guidance to the diagnosis, treatment and clinical management of a disease which accounts for a quarter of all cancers affecting men.

Designed to be as practical and accessible as possible, leading experts discuss key issues in prostate cancer management and examine how to deliver best practice in the clinical care of their patients.  Topics covered include:

• What must be considered when counseling newly-diagnosed cancer patients
• Radical surgery options for prostate cancer
• Novel therapies for localized prostate cancer
• How should metastatic prostate cancer be diagnostic and managed
• What are the best methods of administering end of life care for the patient

Brought to you by a highly experienced editor team, and containing key points, management algorithms, practice tips and the latest AUA and EAU clinical guidelines, this is the ideal consultation tool for doctors both on the wards and in the office.

Edition details

• Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118347358
• ISBN 13: 9781118347355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Tewari Ashutosh K., Whelan Peter, Graham John D.