Recent Advances In Prostate Cancer Surgery
Detailed description
Deyan Anakievski’s monograph entitled ‘Recent advances in prostate cancer surgery’ comprehensively discusses a variety of actual aspects of the contemporary surgical management of prostate cancer and shares author’s experience with the successful application of laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.
The book contains an introduction, eight chapters, 13 subchapters and a conclusion. There are a total of 398 references of foreign publications. Most of them have been published in 2021 only. This fact proves the coverage of the newest scientific achievements in this narrow interdisciplinary field.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter one. Social epidemiology of prostate cancer
1.1. Prostate cancer incidence and prevalence
1.2. Prostate cancer mortality
1.3. Risk factors for prostate cancer
1.4. Screening for prostate cancer
1.5. Economic burden of prostate cancer
Chapter two. Modern diagnosis of prostate cancer
2.1. Biochemical markers
2.2. Molecular and immunohistochemical biomarkers
2.3. Image diagnosis
Chapter three. Clinico-pathological features of prostate cancer
Chapter four. Surgery of prostate cancer
4.1. Historical survey of prostate cancer surgery
4.2. Modern techniques of open radical prostatectomy
4.3. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
4.4. Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
4.5. Nerve sparing prostatectomy and lymph node dissection
Chapter five. Patient’s quality of life after radical prostatectomy
Chapter six. Complications of laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
Chapter seven. Patient’s prognosis and survival after open, laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
Chapter eight. Our experience with laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
Conclusion
References
How to cite:
Anakievski, D. Recent advances in prostate cancer surgery. Varna, Varna Medical University, 2022. 240 p.