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Informationen zum Autor Hedvig Hricak is Chairman, Department of Radiology and Carroll and Milton Pertrie Chair at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She is also the Professor of Radiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA. Peter T. Scardino is Chair, Department of Surgery and Director, NCI SPORE in Prostate Cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is also Professor of Urology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA. Klappentext Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in men. Although numerous treatments are available, there are few evidence-based guidelines. This volume describes imaging for diagnosis and staging, and all aspects of treatment of the disease. It is a valuable reference for radiologists, urologists, medical and radiation oncologists. Zusammenfassung Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in men. Although numerous treatments are available! there are few evidence-based guidelines. This volume describes imaging for diagnosis and staging! and all aspects of treatment of the disease. It is a valuable reference for radiologists! urologists! medical and radiation oncologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series foreword; Preface to Prostate Cancer; 1. Anatomy of the prostate gland and surgical pathology of prostate cancer Kai H. Hammerich, Gustavo E. Ayala and Thomas M. Wheeler; 2. Natural and treated history of prostate cancer Hartwig Huland; 3. Current clinical issues in prostate cancer diagnosis Hedvig Hricak and Peter T. Scardino; 4. Surgical treatment of prostate cancer Timothy A. Masterson and James A. Eastham; 5. Radiation therapy Michael J. Zelefsky and Maria A. Kollmeier; 6. Systematic therapy Lawrence H. Schwartz and Michael Morris; 7. Transrectal ultrasound imaging of the prostate Mark L. Pe, Edouard J. Trabulsi and Ethan J. Halpern; 8. CT imaging Jingbo Zhang; 9. Magnetic resonance imaging Oguz Akin; 10. Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and other emerging technologies Amita Shukla-Dave and Kristen L. Zakian; 11. Nuclear medicine: diagnostic evaluation of metastatic disease Neeta Pandit-Taskar and Steven M. Larson; 12. Imaging recurrent prostate cancer Tamar Sella and Darko Pucar; Index....
