Contemporary issues in prostate cancer
Subtitle: a nursing perspective
By: [edited by] Jeanne Held-Warmkessel.
Contributors: Held-Warmkessel, Jeanne.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Prostate -- Cancer.; Prostate -- Cancer -- Nursing.; Prostatic Neoplasms -- nursing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology, risk factors, and prevention strategies / Elissa Clayton; title: Screening and early detection / Anne Robin Waldman; title: Cellular characteristics, pathophysiology, and disease manifestations / Jennifer Cash; title: Initial assessment and diagnosis / Susan K. Roethke; title: Staging of prostate cancer / Mary Collins; title: Treatment decision making / William Tester, Alberto Mizrachi, Maria Devito Brouch; title: Expectant management: the art and science of watchful waiting / Maureen E. O'Rourke; title: Surgery / Tina Mason; title: Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy / Denise Bickert; title: External beam radiation therapy / Scott Watkins and Heidi Volpe; title: Interstitial brachytherapy / Jennifer Cash; title: Hormonal therapy / Laura Stempkowski; title: Treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer with chemotherapy / Jeanne Held-Warmkessel; title: Quality of life and prostate cancer / Cynthia R. King; title: Advanced prostate cancer: symptom management / Jeanne Held-Warmkessel; title: The use of complementary and alternatieve (cam) therapies in men with prostate cancer / Georgia M. Decker; title: Prostate cancer resources for patients, families, and professionals / Carol Bleecher.