More than one in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. In recent years there has been an explosion of information regarding PSA screening and biomarkers for the disease. In Prostate Cancer Screening, Second Edition, the world’s leading experts on prostate cancer detection update the first edition with the latest findings. The book incorporates a series of thoughtful and cutting-edge works from the world’s experts in prostate cancer screening, ranging from the current status quo of prostate cancer screening across the globe to consensus on optimal utilization of the traditional PSA and DRE tests, to cutting-edge research in new biomarkers, biomeasures, and extended risk algorithms for prostate cancer. An additional chapter covers family-based linkage analysis as well as possible pitfalls in prostate cancer biomarker evaluation studies. Timely and authoritative, Prostate Cancer Screening, Second Edition, is an essential text for urologists, oncologists and family physicians, as well as researchers in the biomarker industry who seek methods to better develop and support markers and measures of prostate cancer.
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"This book describes in depth the current status of PSA screening as well as other diagnostic tools. ... The book also includes a compact disk with a program that can calculate risk of developing prostate cancer. The book is well written and readable, not only for the specialist, but also the interested physician, trainee or student."- Oncology
"...offers valuable background information for urologists and family physicians" - Clinical Chemistry
"Comprehensive and balanced, Prostate Cancer Screening, presents a lively and rigorous evaluation of the science of prostate cancer screening, affording the health care provider with an informative discussion of its pros and cons, together with user-friendly computer program that analyzes an individual patient's risk of prostate cancer." -Tumori
"...offers valuable background information for urologists and family physicians" - Clinical Chemistry
"Comprehensive and balanced, Prostate Cancer Screening, presents a lively and rigorous evaluation of the science of prostate cancer screening, affording the health care provider with an informative discussion of its pros and cons, together with user-friendly computer program that analyzes an individual patient's risk of prostate cancer." -Tumori
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The approach we followed to review the epidemiology of prostate cancer was to divide this chapter into three major sections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prostate cancer knowledge, unscreened men, differentiated disease, recommendation that the condition, evident prostate cancer, prostate cancer awareness week, ovarian cancer screening trial, prostate cancer mortality, prostate cancer screening, clinically significant prostate cancer, localized prostate cancer, prostate cancer detection, hereditary prostate cancer, mammographic screening trials, prostate cancer diagnosis, confined prostate cancer, prostate cancer incidence, cancer screening trials, detecting prostate cancer, cancer detection rate, diagnosed prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy specimens, lung cancer screening, coil magnetic resonance imaging, seminal vesicle invasion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Natl Cancer Inst, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Humana Press Inc, Current Clinical Urology, Prostate Cancer Screening Edited, American Urological Association, New York, Ann Intern Med, Preventive Services Task Force, African American, American Academy of Family Physicians, Arch Fam Med, Arch Intern Med, Cancer Causes Control, Olmsted County, Cancer Res, Clin Chem, Mayo Clinic, Oncol Nurs Forum, Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team, United Kingdom, Visits Biopsies, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev New!
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The approach we followed to review the epidemiology of prostate cancer was to divide this chapter into three major sections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prostate cancer knowledge, unscreened men, differentiated disease, recommendation that the condition, evident prostate cancer, prostate cancer awareness week, ovarian cancer screening trial, prostate cancer mortality, prostate cancer screening, clinically significant prostate cancer, localized prostate cancer, prostate cancer detection, hereditary prostate cancer, mammographic screening trials, prostate cancer diagnosis, confined prostate cancer, prostate cancer incidence, cancer screening trials, detecting prostate cancer, cancer detection rate, diagnosed prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy specimens, lung cancer screening, coil magnetic resonance imaging, seminal vesicle invasion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Natl Cancer Inst, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Humana Press Inc, Current Clinical Urology, Prostate Cancer Screening Edited, American Urological Association, New York, Ann Intern Med, Preventive Services Task Force, African American, American Academy of Family Physicians, Arch Fam Med, Arch Intern Med, Cancer Causes Control, Olmsted County, Cancer Res, Clin Chem, Mayo Clinic, Oncol Nurs Forum, Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team, United Kingdom, Visits Biopsies, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev New!
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- Prostate Cancer (A Cleveland Clinic Guide) (Cleveland Clinic Guides) by Eric Klein on 22 pages
- Prostate Cancer by William Catalona on 12 pages
- Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice by Roger S. Kirby on 10 pages
- Prostate Cancer Understanding the Patho by Labrie on 6 pages
- Prostate Cancer by Nancy A. Dawson on page 275, and page 276
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- Cancer of the Prostate (Basic and Clinical Oncology) by S. Das on page 125, and page 126
- Pediatric Urology (Current Clinical Urology) by John P. Gearhart in Front Matter
- Advanced Endourology: The Complete Clinical Guide (Current Clinical Urology) by Stephen Y. Nakada in Front Matter
- 20 Common Problems: Urology by Joel M.H. Teichman on page 167
- Office Urology: The Clinician's Guide (Current Clinical Urology) by James C. Ulchaker in Front Matter
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