Invasive Bladder Cancer

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 tog...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bassi, PierFrancesco (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pagano, Francesco (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2007.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.