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Dx/Rx: Prostate Cancer

Author(s): Lewis J. Kampel, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763727475
  • ISBN-10:0763727474
  • Paperback    255 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $49.95 US List
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Tightly organized into a super-condensed outline bulleted format, this handy, pocket-sized manual details precise, up-to-date information for diagnosis and treatment of Prostate Cancer. Throughout the book, tables and figures summarize important clinical data and current professional society recommendations, while salient references direct readers to additional information. Current, quick, and concise, for instant access on the ward or in the clinic!

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Pocket-sized handy reference

Outline bulleted format provides readers with an efficient, convenient resource for finding precise, up-to-date information

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Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Principles
Section II: Clinical State: No Cancer Diagnosis
Chapter 2: The Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
Chapter 3: Pathology of Prostate Cancer
Section III: Clinical State: Localized Disease
Chapter 4: Staging and Risk Assessment
Chapter 5: Primary Management of Favorable- and Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer
Chapter 6: Management of High-Risk Prostate Cancer—Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Strategies
Section IV: Clinical State: Rising PSA
Chapter 7: Biochemical Failure and Salvage Therapy
Section V: Clinical States: Castrate and Noncastrate Metastic Disease
Chapter 8: Hormone Therapy of Prostate Cancer
Chapter 9: Treatment of Castrate Metastatic Prostate Cancer (CMPC)
Chapter 10: Selected Complications of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Index


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Lewis J. Kampel, MD-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Dr. Kampel is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, and the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. After training in Internal Medicine at the Cornell Cooperating Hospitals and NYU, he completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY. For the past 12 years he has been a member of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with a special interest in prostate cancer and hemostatic disorders associated with the disease.

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