Advances and Controversies in Prostate Cancer, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

Offers information, with articles on: Prostate Cancer: To Screen or Not To Screen; High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Ready for Primetime; The Case for Open verses Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy; and, Primary and Salvage Prostate Cancer Cryotherapy.

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An estimated 234,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year, making it one of the most common cancers affecting American men; however, it can be a controversial disease to diagnose and treat now that there is research abounding for both "watchful waiting” and aggressive treatments. Dr. Oh supplies balanced information, with articles on: Prostate Cancer: To Screen or Not To Screen?; High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Ready for Primetime?; The Case for Open vs. Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy; Primary and Salvage Prostate Cancer Cryotherapy; and The Case for Open vs. Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy, to name a few. The state-of-the art information presented in this issue make is must-have for all urologists.