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Invasive Bladder Cancer [electronic resource] /edited by PierFrancesco Bassi, Francesco Pagano.

by Bassi, PierFrancesco [editor.]; Pagano, Francesco [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Springer London, 2007.Description: VIII, 303 p. online resource.ISBN: 9781846283772.Subject(s): Medicine | Oncology | Urology | Medicine & Public Health | Urology/Andrology | OncologyDDC classification: 616.6 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Epidemiology and prevention of bladder cancer -- Early diagnosis and screening -- Non-invasive diagnosis -- Molecular pathology of tumour progression and metastasis -- Staging: Past, present and future -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Prognostic factors -- Surgical management -- Transurethral resection in patients with muscle-infiltrating bladder cancer -- Nodal involvement -- Pre-operative and definitive radiation therapy -- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy — true and false -- Oncological rationale for function-sparing surgery -- Combination therapy and function-sparing surgery for muscle-invasive bladder cancer -- Chemotherapy of metastatic transitional cell cancer -- Invasive transitional cell cancer in the elderly -- Quality of life -- Urethra involvement and bladder cancer -- Lower urinary tract reconstruction -- Salvage cystectomy.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Invasive Bladder Cancer draws on the expertise of an international community of experts in the area. It offers an updated, simple overview bridging the information coming from basic research to clinical practice, facilitated by most chapters having both a basic researcher and a clinician writing together. The book will be of particular interest to office urologists, and oncologists with a specialist interest in urology.
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Epidemiology and prevention of bladder cancer -- Early diagnosis and screening -- Non-invasive diagnosis -- Molecular pathology of tumour progression and metastasis -- Staging: Past, present and future -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Prognostic factors -- Surgical management -- Transurethral resection in patients with muscle-infiltrating bladder cancer -- Nodal involvement -- Pre-operative and definitive radiation therapy -- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy — true and false -- Oncological rationale for function-sparing surgery -- Combination therapy and function-sparing surgery for muscle-invasive bladder cancer -- Chemotherapy of metastatic transitional cell cancer -- Invasive transitional cell cancer in the elderly -- Quality of life -- Urethra involvement and bladder cancer -- Lower urinary tract reconstruction -- Salvage cystectomy.

Invasive Bladder Cancer draws on the expertise of an international community of experts in the area. It offers an updated, simple overview bridging the information coming from basic research to clinical practice, facilitated by most chapters having both a basic researcher and a clinician writing together. The book will be of particular interest to office urologists, and oncologists with a specialist interest in urology.

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