Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice
Author(s): Philip W. Kantoff, MD Peter Carroll, MD Anthony V. D'Amico, MD, PhD John Isaacs, MD Ronald Ross, MD Howard Scher, MD
ISBN: 0-7817-2006-0
Date: December 2001
Pages: 704
Illustrations: 202
This volume is the first interdisciplinary medical text on prostate cancer. More than 50 chapters cover all aspects of diagnosis and screening and all forms of accepted treatments of the prostate, with emphasis on the retention of sexual and physiological function. Highlights of the book include the most exhaustive coverage currently available of advanced androgen-sensitive and androgen-refractory disease. An introductory chapter discusses the impact of advances in genetic understanding of prostate cancer on clinical practice.
Section I: Biology
Section II: Epidemiology
Section III: Diagnosis and Staging
Section IV: Early Prostate Cancer-Single Modality Treatment
Section V: Early Prostate Cancer-Multimodality Treatment
Section VI: Advanced Hormone-sensitive Disease
Section VII: Hormone-Refractory Disease
Section VIII: Hormone Refractory Disease-Current Standar