ABC of Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK and US and the second most common worldwide. The ABC of Prostate Cancer provides fully illustrated guidance on the treatment and management of prostate cancer. It covers the biology, anatomy, and pathology of prostate cancer, screening, and active surveillance and monitoring. It presents an assessment of treatment options including prostatectomy, bracytherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, along with modern diagnostic tests and an overview of new approaches to prostate cancer. With an international author team, the ABC of Prostate Cancer is ideal for general practitioners, family physicians, specialist nurses, junior doctors, medical students and others working with prostate cancer patients and their families.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK and USand the second most common worldwide.The ABC of Prostate Cancer provides fully illustratedguidance on the treatment and management of prostate cancer. Itcovers the biology, anatomy, and pathology of prostate cancerscreening, and active surveillance and monitoring. It presents anassessment of treatment options including prostatectomybracytherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, along with moderndiagnostic tests and an overview of new approaches to prostatecancer.With an international author team, the ABC of ProstateCancer is ideal for general practitioners, family physiciansspecialist nurses, junior doctors, medical students and othersworking with prostate cancer patients and their families.

Contributors viiForeword ix1 Applied Anatomy of the Prostate 1Prasanna Sooriakumaran Karl-Dietrich Sievert Abhishek Srivastava and Ashutosh Tewari2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer 5Murali Varma and Ashish Chandra3 Biology of Prostate Cancer 8R. William G. Watson and John M. Fitzpatrick4 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 11Robin Weston Anthony J. Costello and Declan G. Murphy5 Imaging of Prostate Cancer 14James Halls and Uday Patel6 Screening for Prostate Cancer 18Richard J. Bryant and Freddie C. Hamdy7 Active Surveillance 22Judith Dockray Pardeep Kumar Lars Holmberg and Gordon Muir8 Open Radical Prostatectomy 25Wim van Haute and Hein van Poppel9 Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy 29Pardeep Kumar and Declan Cahill10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy 33Ben Challacombe and Jim Peabody11 Prostate Brachytherapy 37Peter Acher and Rick Popert12 HIFU 40Louise Dickinson Hashim U. Ahmed and Mark Emberton13 Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer 44Alastair Henderson and John Davies14 Advances in External Beam Radiotherapy 48David Landau Nadia Walsh and Asad Qureshi15 Recent Advances in Hormonal Therapy 51Heather Payne Reena Davda and Mark R. Feneley16 Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer 54Roger S. Kirby Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick17 Immunology of Prostate Cancer 57Oussama Elhage Christine Galustian Richard Smith and Prokar Dasgupta18 New Approaches to Prostate Cancer 63Megan S. Schober Roger S. Kirby and Prokar DasguptaIndex 67