The Prostate Cancer Dilemma: Selecting Patients for Active (New)

The Prostate Cancer DilemmaSelecting Patients for Active Surveillance, Focal Ablation and Definitive Therapy\nAuthor(s): Nelson N. Stone, E. David Crawford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783319214849, 978-3319214849\nSynopsis\nThis text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in early prostate [url] book reviews new data about genetic markers, transperineal mapping biopsy and mpMRI, how to apply each of these technologies in patients with elevated PSA, when a prior prostate biopsy performed by the standard TRUS method is negative and in cases where low risk disease is already diagnosed, how to differentiate those men who might harbor more aggressive disease from those who do not. Over 75% of newly diagnosed prostate cancer meets the criteria for low risk disea.