Prostate Cancer Prevention

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cuzick, Jack (Editor), Thorat, Mangesh A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 202
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.

Prostate cancer is by far the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of death due to cancer. It comprises a mixed group of tumours displaying varying clinical behaviour: while some have a very aggressive course, others are rather indolent. Prevention of prostate cancer and discrimina...

Table of Contents:

• Biology and natural history of prostate cancer
• Nutrition and prostate cancer
• Prostate cancer chemoprevention
• Lifestyle and dietary factors
• GWAS in prostate cancer predisposition and application to screening and prevention
• Risk prediction biomarkers – CCP
• Risk prediction biomarkers - TMPRSS2-ERG
• Risk prediction biomarkers – PCA3
• Risk adapted chemoprevention for PCa
• Outlook for 5α reductase inhibitors in prostate cancer prevention
• Prostate cancer chemoprevention: Aspirin
• Prostate cancer chemoprevention: DFMO
• Prostate cancer chemoprevention: Lycopene
• Distinguishing aggressive from indolent prostate cancer
• Prognosis and Management of low grade disease - Management of Gleason 6
• Prostate cancer prevention: Policy & Research implications.