Prostate Cancer
The Team Approach
By- Fray Marshall, MD, Professor of Urology, James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Director, Adult Urology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
- Leslie Moffat, BSc, MB, MBA, FRCS(Ed), FSA(Scot), Consultant Urologist, Department of Urology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Malcolm Mason, Velindre Hospital
- Timothy Wilt, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Univerity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Hardbound, 224 Pages
Published: December 1950
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-0-7234-3305-7
Contents
- Introduction
- Initial assessment of the patient (procedures carried out by the community team/family practitioner/GP)
- Screening (the screening team: mass screening vs case finding)
- Investigation (the laboratory team: pathogenesis, evaluating biopsies of screening, radical prostatectomy, relapse, primary diagnosis of advanced disease, the measurement of PSA at all stages)
- Treatment (role of surgery, oncology, radiotherapy etc.)
- Advanced cancer treatment
- Nursing (short chapter, hospital setting)
- Follow up (short chapter, cover consultant and primary care follow-up)
- Palliative care
- Research: future trends (covering the work of the research team in its broadest sense, including epidemiology, drug and basic research)
