Management of Prostate Cancer (Current Clinical Urology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607612585 ISBN 13: 9781607612582

Publisher: Humana, 2012

Synopsis

The thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Management of Prostate Cancer provides concise and authoritative guidance to today's best therapeutic regimens for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.  Highlighting the latest major advances in the field, the book includes chapters on the most controversial areas of prostate cancer – screening, chemoprevention, and active surveillance; updated chapters on genetic risk and progression, biopsy schemes, treatment of complications, and comparative treatment outcomes for surgery; and new chapters on risk factors, new markers, nomograms, and focal therapy. This volume also features overviews of new and emerging drugs and treatment paradigms for castrate resistant disease, advances that promise to extend life and perhaps even cure a subset of men with metastatic disease.

With its comprehensive illustrations and contributions from renowned experts in the field, Management of Prostate Cancer, 3^rd Edition is an invaluable resource for practitioners in the treatment of prostate cancer.

About this title

About the Author

Eric A. Klein, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

J. Stephen Jones, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

From the Back Cover

The thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Management of Prostate Cancer provides concise and authoritative guidance to today's best therapeutic regimens for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Highlighting the latest major advances in the field, the book includes chapters on the most controversial areas of prostate cancer – screening, chemoprevention, and active surveillance; updated chapters on genetic risk and progression, biopsy schemes, treatment of complications, and comparative treatment outcomes for surgery; and new chapters on risk factors, new markers, nomograms, and focal therapy. This volume also features overviews of new and emerging drugs and treatment paradigms for castrate resistant disease, advances that promise to extend life and perhaps even cure a subset of men with metastatic disease.

With its comprehensive illustrations and contributions from renowned experts in the field, Management of Prostate Cancer, 3^rd Edition is an invaluable resource for practitioners in the treatment of prostate cancer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607612585
• ISBN 13: 9781607612582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Klein Eric A., Jones J. Stephen