Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Urology) [Hardcover]

Michael J. Droller (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0896038181 | ISBN-13: 978-0896038189 | Publication Date: March 15, 2001 | Edition: 1st

Michael J. Droller, MD and a panel of experienced clinicians bring their strong background in clinical research to bear on the assessment and management of bladder cancer. Their comprehensive discussion summarizes the state-of-the-art in diagnosis and treatment, based on the latest understanding of bladder cancer's epidemiology, carcinogenesis, and tumor markers. Topics of particular interest include the role of genetics and molecular biology in evaluating bladder cancer clinically, the evaluation of the results of systemic treatment in advanced disease, the current status of tumor markers in bladder cancer, and the means for further study in their applicability. Insightful and evidenced-based, Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment provides active clinicians and clinical investigators with not only a critical survey of the rapidly expanding research in the area, but also a state-of-the-art tutorial on today's optimal assessment and treatment of bladder cancer.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Michael Droller has corralled the subjects' most influential opinion leaders and wrought from each a disciplined manuscript on their particular area of interest...it forms and excellent overview of Bladder Cancer for any urologist, senior urology resident or even the translational research investigator. As the chapters unroll, the organized structure of the compiled works progressively build the reader's knowledge...Dr. Droller skillfully used his editorial hand to maintain a disciplined text presenting scientific data to support any and all authored suppositions....Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this text. I think even the reader well verse in the bladder cancer literature will benefit from the organized manner in which this text presents an enormous amount of information" - Journal of Pelvic Surgery "Dr. Droller has put together a small but densely packed volume on the current issues involved in managing patients with this disease. These issues include molecular markers of the disease, both for prognosis and detection, pathology, intravesical neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, urinary diversion techniques for both women and men and statistical consideration in bladder cancer trials. The authors of the chapters represent leaders in American universities as well as Norway and Sweden.- Oncology "This book presents a detailed summary of all aspects of bladder cancer and comprises contributions from 44 experts in this field....this text provides a precise synopsis of all contemporary issues in the management of bladder cancer. It would be useful as a reference to a busy urologist in practice and provides a well summarized, manageable text for those trainees sitting the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Urology) examination." - British Journal of Surgery "Insightful and evidence-based, Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment provides active clinicians and clinical investigators with not only a critical survey of the rapidly expanding research in the area, but also a state-of-the-art tutorial on today's optimal assessment and treatment of bladder cancer." -Tumori "The scope is ambitious and overall provides a very useful book for anyone using or about to use ELISAs...there is a lot of useful information not present in many other single ELISA publications..." - Immunology News "The book represents an outstanding work, completed by high quality figures and tables and it offers excellent and useful information for both urologists and clinical oncologists." - Neoplasma "...there are substantial chapters that focus on the epidemiology and the molecular biology of urothelial malignancy. This is timely - since, in common with other tumors, there has been a great deal of research in this area in recent years. Overall this is a useful book that summarizes modern thinking on the management of bladder cancer. It would be a useful addition to the collection of anyone involved in the management of this disease." - Cancer Forum

From the Back Cover

The increasing incidence of bladder cancer in the United States and worldwide offers an excellent opportunity to better understand the biology of this cancer and to apply clinically relevant research in the treatment room. In Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment, Michael J. Droller and a panel of experienced clinicians and researchers bring their strong background in clinical research to bear on the assessment and management of this important disease. Their comprehensive discussion summarizes the state-of-the-art in diagnosis and treatment, based on the latest understanding of bladder cancer's epidemiology, carcinogenesis, genetics, and tumor markers. Topics of particular interest include the role of genetics and molecular biology in evaluating bladder cancer clinically, the evaluation of the results of systemic treatment in advanced disease, the current status of tumor markers in bladder cancer, and the means for further study of their applicability. Insightful and evidenced-based, Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment provides active clinicians and clinical investigators with not only a critical survey of the rapidly expanding research in the area, but also a state-of-the-art tutorial on today's optimal assessment and treatment of bladder cancer.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 472 pages
• Publisher: Humana Press; 1st edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896038181
• ISBN-13: 978-0896038189
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,300,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most helpful book on bladder cancer I have read, March 4, 2005

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Warren J. Hecht (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Urology) (Hardcover)

After nearly a year of visiting my doctor and urologist, I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. I'm the type of person who reads everything, so I bought this book, which is a medical text. IT WAS WELL WORTH THE PRICE. After reading it -- I could understand almost all of it but the most technical parts -- I was able to have a frank, technical discussion with my urologist and actually influence the treatment decisions he was making for me. I am undergoing a biopsy tomorrow to determine the exact source of the cancer. (All of the uniary system is lined with the same type of cells called transitional cells, so if they can't see the source of the cancer with a cystoscope they don't know exactly where it is emanating from.) Most bladder cancer is quite managable, but it is the fourth leading cancer and nothing to fool around with. This book will give you a solid background and help you understand the subtlties of the disease and the diagnostic tests, as well as management of your recovery. It's only shortcoming is that it was published in 2001 and some diagnostic advances have been made. This book however, had all the information I needed to make sure my diagnosis and treatment began to move very quickly. As an aside, they began looking at me because my PSA test was high, but even after a prostate biopsy and a couple of prostate ultrasounds they could find nothing wrong with my prostate. I'm not an MD, but the uniary system and the prostate share the same local and I would not be at all surprised if my uniary system isw 'exciting' my prostate (no pun intended).