Prostate Cancer Science and Clinical Practice

Features

Provides a translational resource for scientists and clinicians working on prostate cancer
Reviews current surgical interventions and highlights their related pitfalls
Presents the latest laparoscopic techniques with figures and illustrations of step-by-step procedures
Offers insight into the potential for novel approaches to treatment in the future
Includes personal perspectives from patients

Contents

A. ETIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY AND TUMOR BIOLOGY
Population Screening for prostate Cancer and in testing high risk African-American men.
Molecular Mechanism of Prostate Cancer Invasion and Metastasis.
Does prostate cancer present more than one cancer?
High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia.
Update on the Regulation of Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer.
Prostate Cancer with Other Primary Malignancies.
Angiogenesis, Growth Factors, Microvessel Density, p53 and p21 in Prostate Cancer.
Staging of Prostate Cancer, PSA Issues leading up to Prostate Biopsy and Biopsy Technique.
Prostate biopsy: Who, how and when?

GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND HEREDITARY PREDISPOSITION, SCREENING AND COUNSELING
Prostate Cancer Prevention: Strategies and Realities.
Genetic changes and their prognostic significance in Cancer.

EPIDEMIOLOGY
Cancer of the Prostate (CaP) - Incidence in the US.
Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Marital Status and Prostate Cancer in the US.
Prostate Cancer: Detection & Biopsy Strategies.
Prostate Cancer Treatment Outcomes between African Americans & Caucasians.
Hereditary Prostate Cancer.
Breast and Prostate Cancer: A Comparisonof Two Common Endocrinologic Malignancies.
Artificial neural networks for predictive modeling in Prostate Cancer.

PREVENTION OF CAP
Obesity, Aging and Immunity in Prostate Cancer.
The Role of Diet.
What are the effects of dietary supplements (selenium & vitamin E) or aspirin/NSAIDs on Prostate Cancer?
Effects of smoking, alcohol, exercise and sun exposure on Prostate Cancer.
Prostate Cancer on the Internet: Review, 2002.

TREATMENT
The Decision Making Progress for Prostate Cancer.
Expectant management in 2002: Rationale and indications.

SURGERY
Is surgery still necessary for Prostate Cancer?
Indications for pelvic lymphadenectomy.
The Surgical Anatomy of the Prostate.
Radical retropubic prostatectomy.
Principles of Peripheral Nerve Repair.
Radical prostatectomy: the retropubic antegrade approach.
Mini- lap Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy.
Radical Perineal Prostatectomy.
Stress Incontinences After Radical Prostatectomy.
Prognostic significance of Positive Surgical Margins.
Bloodless surgery and RRP.
Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.
Pitfalls of laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.
Robotics and RRP.

RADIATION THERAPY
Does Radiation Therapy really work for Prostate Ca?
Is one form of Radiation Therapy better over another?
Radiation therapy for early stage prostate cancer
- could it parallel prostatectomy?
Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer.

HORMONAL/CHEMO THERAPY
Osteoporosis and Prostate Cancer.
Neoadjuvant hormonal treatment prior to curative treatment in Prostate Cancer.
Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer: The Evolving Role of Chemotherapy.
Monotherapy with anti-androgens in the treatment of prostate cancer.

CRYOBLATION
Is Cyroblation Here to Stay?
Salvage Cryoblation of the Prostate.

PATIENT'S EXPERIENCES
Quality of Life: Impact of Prostate Cancer and its Treatment.
Sexual aspects of Prostate Cancer Treatment.
Title to be agreed and supplied asap by M. Macdonald/ W. Gray.

GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES
CaP Economics.

NEW HORIZONS FOR CaP
Molecular Therapeutics in Prostate Cancer.
Antioxidants & Phytotherapy.
What is the newest technology in treating CaP?
Transrectal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.
New Markers for Prostate Cancer Detection:What is on the horizon?
Are Vaccinations for Prostate Cancer Realistic?