Title | A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Controversies in the Management of Prostate Cancer [electronic resource] / edited by Donald S. Coffey, Martin I. Resnick, F. Andrew Dorr, James P. Karr |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1988 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1667-1 |
Descript | XII, 338 p. online resource |
Prostate Cancer: The Magnitude of the Problem in the United States -- Incidence, Survival and Mortality Trends in Prostate Cancer -- Localized Disease -- Incidental Cancer -- Diagnosis of Stage A Prostate Cancer in the Peopleโs Republic of China -- Prevention of Prostatic Carcinogenesis โ Is it Realistic? -- Tumor Volume and Natural History of Stage A1 and A2 Disease -- The Proto-Biology of Prostate Cancer -- The Classification and Prognosis of Untreated Stage A1 and A2 Prostate Cancer with a Comparison of Their Histologic Findings at Radical Prostatectomy -- Role of Histology in Selecting Treatment for Stage A1 and Stage A2 Disease -- Panel Discussion: Management of Stages A1 and A2 Disease -- Management of Clinically Manifest Stages B1 and B2 Disease -- External Beam Irradiation of Prostatic Cancer -- Long-Term Results After Combined Radioactive Gold Seed Implantation and External Beam Radiotherapy for Localized Prostatic Cancer -- Radical Prostatectomy for the Treatment of Localized Prostatic Cancer -- Panel Discussion: Management of Stages B1 and B2 Disease -- Invasive Disease -- Stages C, D0, and D1 Disease -- Adjuvant Radiotherapy Following Radical Prostatectomy: Results and Complications -- Treatment of Patients with Positive Margins -- The Long-Term Success of Local Radiation Therapy in Preventing Tumor Regrowth in the Treated Field -- Is Salvage Prostatectomy a Benefit? -- Accuracy of Grading and Staging Prostate Cancer -- Radical Prostatectomy and the Influence of Early Endocrine Therapy for Stage D1 Prostate Cancer: Long-Term Follow-Up Study -- Panel Discussion: Management of Stages C, D0 and D1 Disease -- Hormonal Treatment Approaches to D2 Disease -- The Case for Total Androgen Blockade in the Management of Metastatic Prostate Cancer -- Hormonal Therapy of Prostate Cancer: Limitations in the Total Androgen Ablation Concept -- Comparison of Total Androgen Blockade and Orchiectomy in Metastatic Cancer of Prostate -- A Randomized Prospective Evaluation of Leuprolide Versus Diethylstilbestrol in the Treatment of Stage D2 Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Results of a Multicenter Study -- Panel Discussion: Hormonal Treatment Approaches to D2 Disease -- Approaches to Discovering More Effective Treatments for Prostate Cancer -- Approaches to Discovering More Effective Treatments for Prostate Cancer โ Early Diagnosis and Screening -- Clinical Trial Design for Cytotoxics in Prostate Cancer -- Panel Discussion: New Approaches -- Summations, Perspectives and Future Needs -- Committee Reports -- Excerpts of Minutes of Prostrate Cancer Working Group Committee Meeting on Diagnostic Nomenclature -- Grading Prostate Cancer โ โAs is our Pathology, So is Our Practiceโ -- Organ Systems Program Staging Classification for Prostate Cancer -- Response/Progression Criteria for Evaluating Prostate Cancer -- Guidelines for Reporting Studies of Treatment for Prostatic Cancer -- National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement -- The Management of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer -- Participants and Contributors