Invasive Bladder Cancer draws on the expertise of international professionals in the field.

Invasive Bladder Cancer offers an updated, simple overview that bridges information coming from basic research to clinical practice.

Containing several illustrations, Invasive Bladder Cancer will be of particular intrest to urologists, as well as to oncologists with an interest in urology.

Features:

• Updated, cohesive overview connecting basic research to clinical practice
• Includes more than 50 illustrations, and 40 tables
• Of particular interest to clinical urologists and oncologists

Contents

1. Epidemiology and Prevention of Bladder Cancer
2. Early Diagnosis and Screening
3. Non-Invasive Diagnosis
4. Molecular Pathology of Tumour Progression and Metastasis: An Introduction
5. Staging: Past, Present and Future
6. MR Imaging of the Male Pelvis
7. Invasive Bladder Cancer: Prognostic Factors
8. Surgical Management of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
9. Transurethral Resection in Patients with Muscle-Infiltrating Bladder Cancer
10. Nodal Involvement
11. Pre-Operative and Definitive Radiation Therapy in Bladder Cancer
12. Invasive Bladder Cancer: Neo-Adjuvant and Adjuvant Chemotherapy: True and False
13. Oncological Rationale for Function-Sparing Surgery
14. Combination Therapy and Function-Sparing Surgery for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
15. Metastatic Transitional Cell Cancer: the State of the Art
16. Invasive Transitional Cell Cancer in the Elderly
17. Quality of Life in Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
18. Urethra Involvement and Bladder Cancer
19. Lower Urinary Tract Reconstruction in Patients with Bladder Cancer
20. Salvage Cystectomy

Index

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