Title | Diagnosis and Treatment of Genitourinary Malignancies [electronic resource] / edited by Kenneth J. Pienta |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1996 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6343-3 |
Descript | VIII, 272 p. online resource |
DIAGNOSTIC Advances: The Use of Molecular Medicine in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Genitourinary Malignancies -- 1. Epidemiology of prostate cancer and bladder cancer: An Overview -- 2. Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome: hereditary cancer arising from Inherited mutations of the VHL tumor suppressor gene -- 3. New pathologic techniques for diagnosing genitourinary Malignancies -- 4. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect prostate cancer micrometastasis in the blood -- 5. Successful separation between benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer by measurement of free and complexed PSA -- Surgical and Radiation Advances -- 6. Retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in staging and treatment of clinical stage I and II nonseminomatous testis cancer (NSGCT): the development of nerve-sparing techniques -- 7. Current therapy for invasive bladder cancer -- 8. Beyond the nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy -- 9. Three-dimensional conformal therapy (3D-CRT) for prostate cancer -- 10. Cryosurgical ablation of the prostate: treatment alternative for localized prostate cancer -- Medical Advances -- 11. The chemoprevention of prostate cancer and the prostate cancer prevention trial -- 12. Total androgen blockade for prostate cancer: the end does not justify the means -- 13. Therapy for hormone-resistant prostate cancer no longer a myth -- 14. Renal, bladder, and prostate cancers: gene therapy -- 15. The role of immunotherapy in urologic malignancies -- 16. Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with genitourinary malignancies