Active surveillance for localized prostate cancer : a new paradigm for clinical management /

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Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, ©2018.
Description:1 online resource (249 pages)
Language:English
Series:Current Clinical Urology
Current clinical urology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11541876
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Other authors / contributors:Klotz, Laurence.
ISBN:9783319627106
3319627104
3319627090
9783319627090
9783319627090
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Notes:Patient Selection for Active Surveillance: Endpoints.
References3: The Role of Fear in Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment; A Tintinnabulation of Fear; The Fears of Patients; The Fears of Doctors; The Fears of the System; The Fears of Society; Flipside Fears; Flipside Fears of Patients; Flipside Fears of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals; The Flipside Fear of the System; Flipside Fears of Our Culture and Our Society; What Can Be Done?; References; 4: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer; Introduction; Considerations; Information Provision and Informed Consent.
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Summary:This book explores active surveillance in prostate cancer, covering patient selection, risk assessment, 'cancer hysteria' in patients, identifying triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MRI information and the roles of surveillance and focal therapy.
Other form:Print version: Klotz, Laurence. Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer : A New Paradigm for Clinical Management. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2017 9783319627090
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-62710-6