Prostate Cancer: The Team Approach

Prostate Cancer: The team approach covers the most recent clinical advances in this area in a concise, practical, and visually attractive manner. It is a concise and accessible text, enhanced with specially commissioned state-of-the-art computer graphics, full color illustrations, and over 30 patient management algorithms. It presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of all the important issues affecting the investigation, diagnosis, management and follow-up of this disease, with special emphasis on the team approach to care of patients. It is written by a world-class author team comprising urologists, medical oncologists, primary care physicians and epidemiologists.All those caring for patients with prostate cancer will find this book a very useful resource. It will be invaluable to urologists, medical oncologists and primary care practitioners in particular. INDICE: IntroductionInitial assessment of the patient (procedures carried out by the community team/family practitioner/GP)Screening (the screening team: mass screening vs case finding)Investigation (the laboratory team: pathogenesis, evaluating biopsies of screening, radical prostatectomy, relapse, primary diagnosis of advanced disease, the measurement of PSA at all stages)Treatment (role of surgery, oncology, radiotherapy etc.)Advanced cancer treatmentNursing (short chapter, hospital setting)Follow up (short chapter, cover consultant and primary care follow-up)Palliative careResearch: future trends (covering the work of the research team in its broadest sense, including epidemiology, drug and basic research)

• ISBN: 978-0-7234-3305-7
• Editorial: Mosby
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés