Prostate cancer : a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management / edited by Adam P. Dicker, William Kevin Kelly, Nicholas G. Zaorsky, Edouard J. Trabulsi ; illustrations by Nicholas G. Zaorsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Epidemiology, screening, and diagnosis -- Introduction: the multidisciplinary approach to prostate cancer -- Epidemiology of prostate cancer -- Diet and prostate cancer -- Epidemiology: obesity as a risk factor -- Screening and diagnosis: the pros of PSA screening -- The argument against prostate cancer screening -- How do we improve PSA accuracy? -- Screening and diagnosis: an update on the ISUP-modified Gleason score and its controversies -- Evaluation of distant disease: the utility of nuclear imaging -- Current approaches to prostate cancer staging and risk stratification: in the midst of a paradigm shift -- Novel molecular and genotype profiling in prostate cancer: the future of screening, diagnosis, and staging -- Genomics and risk assessment -- Future direction: novel urine and serum markers -- Morphometric and systems pathology: the future of screening, diagnosis, and staging -- PET: the future of screening, diagnosis, and staging for prostate cancer -- DCE MRI and MR spectroscopy: the future of screening, diagnosis, and staging -- Future direction: contrast ultrasound -- Counseling patients with clinically localized, high-risk prostate cancer -- Part II: Treatment for low-risk, localized disease -- Active surveillance for prostate cancer: an overview -- Treatment of low-risk, localized prostate cancer: a holistic approach with diet -- Traditional radical prostatectomy -- Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: techniques and complications -- Robotic radical prostatectomy: the Thomas Jefferson University experience -- Surgical training, digital capture, virtual reality, and the future of radical prostatectomy -- External beam radiation therapy: conventional fractionation -- Hypofractionated radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer -- Stereotactic body radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer -- Treatment of low-risk, localized prostate cancer: use of proton therapy -- Treatment of low-risk, localized prostate cancer: brachytherapy -- Treatment of low-risk, localized prostate cancer: general principles of ablative and focal therapies -- Hyperthermia for prostate cancer -- Ablative techniques: vascular targeted photodynamic therapy -- Laser ablative techniques for prostate cancer -- Irreversible electroporation (IRE) prostate ablation -- Quality of life with surgery -- Quality of life with androgen deprivation therapy -- Quality of life with external beam radiation therapy -- Quality of life with brachytherapy for low-risk localized prostate cancer -- Role for comparative effectiveness research in treatment decision making -- Defining treatment failure for localized prostate cancer: PSA and beyond -- Prognosis after biochemical failure and surrogate endpoints for prostate cancer-specific mortality -- Part III: Treatment for high-risk, localized, and locally advanced disease -- treatment of high-risk prostate cancer: the role of low-dose rate (LDR) and high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy -- Part IV: Treatment of disseminated disease -- Salvage therapy for rising PSA -- Metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer -- Metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: mechanisms of hormone escape -- Metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: role of chemotherapy and multifaceted treatment paradigms -- Metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: role of androgen signaling inhibitors -- Radiation and the immune system -- Immunotherapy: agents targeting prostate cancer -- Treatment of bony metastases: inhibitors of bone resorption -- Treatment of bone metastases: radiopharmaceuticals -- Prognostication of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

"With an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration and decision-making, this practical resource reflects the extraordinary advances in the treatment of prostate cancer during the past five years. Approximately thirty international, leading-edge investigators describe the most current evidence-based approaches to prostate cancer treatment. The book provides a comprehensive view of the entire spectrum of prostate cancer management from initial screening through novel and experimental treatments that have the potential for a major impact on practice"--Publisher's description.

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