Prostate Cancer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer

   • Vera Nelen

   Pages 1-8

3. Natural History of Prostatic Carcinoma: The Pathologist’s Perspective

   • Ferran Algaba, Isabel Trias, Yolanda Arce

   Pages 9-24

4. Prognostic Factors in Prostate Cancer

   • Johan Braeckman, Dirk Michielsen

   Pages 25-32

5. The Prevention of Prostate Cancer

   • Keith Griffiths, Domenico Prezioso, A. Turkes, Louis J. Denis

   Pages 33-63

6. Prostate Cancer Screening

   • P. Tenke, J. Horti, P. Balint, B. Kovacs

   Pages 65-81

7. Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

   • Jehonathan H. Pinthus, Dalibor Pacik, Jacob Ramon

   Pages 83-99

8. Does Localized Prostate Cancer Exist?

   • Bernard Lobel

   Pages 101-107

9. Staging of Prostate Cancer

   • Zohar A. Dotan, Jacob Ramon

   Pages 109-130

10. Guidelines and Counselling for Treatment Options in the Management of Prostate Cancer

    • Axel Heidenreich

    Pages 131-162

11. Choices for Surgery

    • Stéphane Larré, Laurent Salomon, Claude Clément Abbou

    Pages 163-178

12. Radiation Therapy in Prostate Cancer

    • Moshe E. Stein, Dirk Boehmer, Abraham Kuten

    Pages 179-199

13. Cryoablation and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound

    • Chris D’Hont

    Pages 201-209

14. The Role of Hormonal Treatment in Prostate Cancer

    • Stephan H. Flüchter, Ralf Weiser, Christoph Gamper

    Pages 211-237

15. Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer

    • Dirk Schrijvers

    Pages 239-249

16. Prostate Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life

    • Domenico Prezioso, Raffaele Galasso, Mario Di Martino, Gennaro Iapicca

    Pages 251-265

17. Europa Uomo: The European Prostate Cancer Coalition

    • Tom Hudson, Louis J. Denis

    Pages 267-271

Prostate cancer treatment dates back almost treatment approaches is examined in the subse- 100years. However, in an era of rapid develop- quent chapters of this volume. ments and innovations in cancer research and Te text addresses the time-honoured h- uro-oncology, there is an increasing need to monal treatment, which has been the mainstay update our knowledge and especially to guide of prostate cancer management for some - our practice by innovations and evidence-based cades. Due to the increased diagnosis of prostate medicine. Prostate cancer is still evolving fol- cancer at earlier stages and the increased use of lowing improvements in disease detection and hormone therapy in earlier disease stages many better understanding of disease characteristics. patients will receive hormone therapy for a long Tis book addresses the current state of the art in period. Tese patients are at risk of acute and this still-developing feld and presents the reader chronic side efects of hormonal therapy. Te- with the information needed to make rational fore, the timing of initiating hormone therapy, patient decisions regarding treatment selection the type of hormone therapy and the monitoring and outcomes. of patients on long-term hormone therapy have Te growing body of knowledge regarding become crucial in the appropriate management epidemiology, pathogenesis, prevention, screen- of patients with prostate cancer. ing, diagnosis and staging is included in the frst Disease management in men with prostate half of the book.

• Cancer Screening
• Staging
• cancer
• cancer treatment
• carcinoma
• hormones
• metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC)
• prevention
• prostate cancer
• prostate cancer screening
• radiation therapy
• radiation therapy in prostate cancer
• screening
• surgery
• ultrasound

From the reviews:

"Treatment advances and discoveries in prostate cancer tumor biology are rapidly developing areas of medicine. … The book is a scholarly and satisfactory summary of many established findings. … is a highly informative read and a welcome addition to the existing literature. Ramon and Denis highlight an area that is of growing concern to patients and urologists … . Medical students and residents interested in a primer of established prostate cancer findings would find this book valuable." (Lalit R. Patel and Jonathan W. Simons, JAMA, Vol. 299 (16), 2008)

• The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

  Jacob Ramon

• Antwerp, Belgium

  Louis J. Denis

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