Active surveillance for localized prostate cancer : a new paradigm for clinical management / Laurence Klotz, editor.
This book explores active surveillance in prostate cancer, covering patient selection, risk assessment, 'cancer hysteria' in patients, identifying triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MRI information and the roles of surveillance and focal therapy.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer,
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Current clinical urology.
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| Summary: | This book explores active surveillance in prostate cancer, covering patient selection, risk assessment, 'cancer hysteria' in patients, identifying triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MRI information and the roles of surveillance and focal therapy. |
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| Item Description: | Patient Selection for Active Surveillance: Endpoints. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Bibliography: | References3: The Role of Fear in Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment; A Tintinnabulation of Fear; The Fears of Patients; The Fears of Doctors; The Fears of the System; The Fears of Society; Flipside Fears; Flipside Fears of Patients; Flipside Fears of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals; The Flipside Fear of the System; Flipside Fears of Our Culture and Our Society; What Can Be Done?; References; 4: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer; Introduction; Considerations; Information Provision and Informed Consent. |
| ISBN: | 9783319627106 3319627104 3319627090 9783319627090 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |