Multidisciplinary Management of Prostate Cancer The Role of the Prostate Cancer Unit /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gentile, Vincenzo (Editor), Panebianco, Valeria (Editor), Sciarra, Alessandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Surgery.; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Diagnostic Radiology.

Prostate cancer is the most common neoplasm in men and its management is very complex, in terms of both diagnosis and treatment. In recent years the value of multidisciplinary management within a prostate cancer unit has been increasingly recognized. Such a multidisciplinary approach within a specia...

Table of Contents:

• Multidisciplinary team (MDT) in cancer management
• Prostate cancer units: how and why
• Comparison between a  multidisciplinary and a mono disciplinary approach to prostate cancer: our experience
• Pathology and clinic
• The dilemma of early diagnosis for a clinically relevant prostate cancer: the role of the urologist in a MDT
• Modern imaging in the initial diagnosis: the role of the radiologist in a MDT
• How to define the primary treatment : the role of the urologist and the radiotherapist in a MDT
• Early diagnosis of failure after primary treatment: multiparametric MRI versus PET-CT
• Intermittent androgen deprivation in the new era: the role of the urologist and the oncologist in a MDT
• New medical strategies: the role of the oncologist in a MDT
• Focal therapies: MRgFUS our experience.