Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology)
Role
Editor: Laurence Klotz
Contributing authors: Meredith [Wallace] Kazer and Donald E. Bailey
Files
Document Type
Article
Description/Summary
Meredith [Wallace] Kazer (with D.E. Bailey) is a contributing author, "Psychosocial Aspects of Active Surveillance".
Book description: The volume provides an introduction to the concept of active surveillance in oncology in general and prostate cancer specifically. The primary focus is to provide a comprehensive guide to the management of patients on surveillance. The volume covers the many complexities and nuances to this approach including, patient selection, risk assessment, how to overcome 'cancer hysteria' when counseling patients, identifying appropriate triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MR imaging information, technique and frequency of biopsies, secondary prevention interventions, and the relative roles of surveillance and focal therapy.
ISBN
9781617799112
Publication Date
2012
Publication Information
Kazer, M.W [Wallace], & Bailey, D.E. (2012). Psychosocial Aspects of Active Surveillance . In Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology). (L. Klotz Ed). New York, Humana Press/Springer.
Recommended Citation
Klotz, Laurence and Kazer, Meredith Wallace, "Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology)" (2012). Nursing and Health Studies Faculty Book Gallery. 61.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-books/61
Comments
Copyright 2012 Humana Press/Springer Publishing Co.