edited by Seth P. Lerner
Treatment and Management of Bladder Cancer provides the reader with all aspects of diagnosis and treatment pertaining to bladder cancer.
To further aid the reader, a user-friendly CD-ROM that features the figures and legends from each chapter in the text is included.
Topics covered include:
- links to occupational and environmental exposures to varying carcinogens
- all aspects of diagnosis and treatment pertaining to bladder cancer
- neurogenic concerns in underdeveloped nations
Contents
Treatment
- Transurethral resection of bladder tumors
- Perioperative instillation of chemotherapeutic drugs
- The role of intravesical chemotherapy in the treatment of bladder cancer
- Intravesical chemotherapy of superficial bladder cancer: optimization and novel agents
- Intravesical immunotherapy: BCG
- G3T1 bladder carcinoma
- What to do when BCG fails
T2-4
- Selection and peri-operative management of patients undergoing radical cystectomy and urinary reconstruction
- Radical cystectomy - technique and outcomes
- Cystectomy in the female
- Nerve sparing: radical cystectomy
- Laparoscopic radical cystectomy and urinary diversion
- Role of extended lymphadenectomy
- Management of the urethra in the cystectomy patient
- Role of radical cystectomy in patients with unresectable and/or loco-regionally
metastatic bladder cancer
Primary bladder sparing therapy
- Radical TURBT
- Partial cystectomy
- Optimal radiotherapy for bladder cancer
- Trimodality therapy in the management of muscle invasive bladder cancer: A Selective Organ-preserving Approach
Urinary tract reconstruction
- Orthotopic neobladder
- Continent cutaneous diversion
- Noncontinent urinary diversion
Treatment of regionally advanced and metastatic bladder cancer
- Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer
- Adjuvant chemotherapy for invasive bladder cancer
- Treatment of metastatic cancer
Index
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