ABC of Prostate Cancer (eBook)

Prokar Dasgupta is Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London Roger S. Kirby is Consultant Urologist, The Prostate Centre, London Foreword by Peter T. Scardino

Contributors vii

Foreword ix

1 Applied Anatomy of the Prostate 1
Prasanna Sooriakumaran Karl-Dietrich Sievert Abhishek Srivastava and Ashutosh Tewari

2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer 5
Murali Varma and Ashish Chandra

3 Biology of Prostate Cancer 8
R. William G. Watson and John M. Fitzpatrick

4 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 11
Robin Weston Anthony J. Costello and Declan G. Murphy

5 Imaging of Prostate Cancer 14
James Halls and Uday Patel

6 Screening for Prostate Cancer 18
Richard J. Bryant and Freddie C. Hamdy

7 Active Surveillance 22
Judith Dockray Pardeep Kumar Lars Holmberg and Gordon Muir

8 Open Radical Prostatectomy 25
Wim van Haute and Hein van Poppel

9 Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy 29
Pardeep Kumar and Declan Cahill

10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy 33
Ben Challacombe and Jim Peabody

11 Prostate Brachytherapy 37
Peter Acher and Rick Popert

12 HIFU 40
Louise Dickinson Hashim U. Ahmed and Mark Emberton

13 Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer 44
Alastair Henderson and John Davies

14 Advances in External Beam Radiotherapy 48
David Landau Nadia Walsh and Asad Qureshi

15 Recent Advances in Hormonal Therapy 51
Heather Payne Reena Davda and Mark R. Feneley

16 Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer 54
Roger S. Kirby Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick

17 Immunology of Prostate Cancer 57
Oussama Elhage Christine Galustian Richard Smith and Prokar Dasgupta

18 New Approaches to Prostate Cancer 63
Megan S. Schober Roger S. Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta

Index 67