BookMichel Bolla, Hendrik van Poppel, editors.
Summary: This exhaustive review of prostate cancer management covers epidemiology, biology, chemoprevention, screening and diagnosis, therapies including surgery, radiation, high-intensity ultrasound, cryotherapy, and more. Includes up-to-date clinical trial data.
Contents:
Epidemiology of prostate cancer in Europe: patterns, trends and determinants
Chemoprevention
Individual and population-based screening
Anatomo-pathology
Biomarkers for prostate cancer
The clinical genomics of prostate cancer
Prostate cancer imaging: an ongoing change of paradigm
Nuclear Medecine (Bone scan, Choline and PSMA PET/CT)
Diagnosis, clinical workup, and TNM classification
Active surveillance for low risk prostate cancer
Open Radical Prostatectomy
The robotic laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
Permanent and high dose rate Brachytherapy (technique, indications, results, morbidity)
IMRT, hypofractionated radiotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy: technique, indications, and results
Combination of androgen deprivation therapy and radiation therapy for locally advanced and localized prostate cancer
Postoperative irradiation: immediate or early delayed?
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer
Prostate Cryotherapy
Salvage prostate brachytherapy for postradiation local failure
Follow-up after radical treatments and relapse
First-line hormonal manipulation: surgical and medical castration with LHRH agonists and antagonists, steroids, and pure antiandrogens
Chemotherapy and androgen receptor-directed treatment of castration resistant metastatic prostate cancer
Bone-targeted therapies in prostate cancer
Immunotherapy and targeted therapies in advanced castration resistant prostate cancer
How to interpret numeric results in publications?
Management of prostate cancer: EAU guidelines on screening, diagnosis and local primary treatment
The millenium patients' perspective.