Management of prostate cancer
By: edited by Eric A. Klein.
Contributors: Klein, Eric A., 1955-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Current clinical urology
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 667
Subjects: Prostate -- Cancer.; Prostatic Neoplasms -- therapy.; Gene Therapy.; Prostatectomy.; Radiotherapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Screening, risk factors, diagnosis, and prevention; value: Prostate cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment : analysis of US mortality and SEER incidence trends in the PSA and pre-PSA era / Robert A. Stephenson; value: Total, complexed, and free PSA forms and human glandular kallikrein 2 : clinical application for early detection and staging of prostate cancer / Alexander Haese and Alan W. Partin; value: Defining an optimum PSA-based screening strategy for young men / Judd W. Moul; value: Hereditary prostate cancer and genetic risk / Phillippa J. Neville, Graham Casey, and John S. Witte; value: Strategies for chemoprevention of prostate cancer / Ronald Lieberman ... [et al.]; value: The special problems of prostate cancer among African Americans : clinical and molecular factors / Isaac J. Powell; value: Contemporary issues in pathological evaluation / Howard S. Levin; value: Current trends in biopsy techniques / Joseph C. Presti, Jr.; value: Localized disease : treatment and outcomes; value: Predicting outcomes : artificial neural networks and nomograms / Audrey C. Rhee ... [et al.]; value: When is observation appropriate? / Kisseng Hsieh and Peter C. Albertsen; value: Contemporary technique of radical prostatectomy : open approach / Eric A. Klein; value: Contemporary technique of radical prostatectomy : laparoscopic approach / Sidney C. Abreu, Andrew P. Steinberg, and Inderbir S. Gill; value: Contemporary technique of radical prostatectomy : perineal approach / Vernon E. Weldon; value: Anesthetic considerations for contemporary radical prostatectomy / Jerome F. O'Hara, Jr. and David Whalley; value: Conformal external beam radiotherapy / Arul Mahadevan and Patrick A. Kupelian; value: Brachytherapy / Kenneth W. Angermeier and Jay P. Ciezki; value: Androgen deprivation and radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer/ Patrick A. Kupelian and Tom Carlson; value: Prostate brachytherapy : the role of supplemental external beam radiotherapy / Gregory S. Merrick and Wayne M. Butler; value: Health-related quality-of-life issues / John T. Wei and David Miller; value: The evaluation and management of post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence / Adonis Hijaz ... [et al.]; value: Sural nerve grafting during radical prostatectomy : techniques and results / Edward D. Kim; value: Management of erectile dysfunction following radical prostatectomy / Craig D. Zippe and Rupesh Raina; value: Counseling patients with localized prostate cancer : radiation or surgery? / Eric A. Klein and Patrick A. Kupelian; value: Counseling the patient with prostate cancer : the radiation oncologist's perspective / Anthony Zietman; value: Counseling patients on choice of therapy : the medical oncologist's perspective / Celestia S. Higano; value: Emotional and informational support for the patient undergoing; value: Radical prostatectomy / Dorothy A. Calabrese; value: Prostate cancer : a survivor's view / Nathaniel K. Cooke; value: Prostate cancer : a spouse's view / Nancy Cooke; value: Advanced disease : management of PSA recurrence after definitive therapy for prostate cancer / Ilia S. Zeltser, Richard K. Valicenti, and Leonard G. Gomella; value: When to refer a patient with prostate cancer to a medical oncologist : the earlier the better / Jeanne Smoot and Nancy A. Dawson; value: Management of newly diagnosed metastatic disease / Thomas E. Hutson; value: Management of the patient with androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancer / Robert Dreicer; value: Bone-targeted therapy for prostate cancer / Navjeet Gandhok and Oliver Sartor; value: Applied molecular biology : biology of PSMA as a diagnostic and therapeutic target / Sam S. Chang, Neil H. Bander, and Warren D. W. Heston; value: Opportunities for targeted molecular therapy for prostate cancer / Evan Y. Yu ... [et al.].