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<p>Contributors vii</p> <p>Foreword ix</p> <p>1 Applied Anatomy of the Prostate 1<br /><i>Prasanna Sooriakumaran Karl-Dietrich Sievert Abhishek Srivastava and Ashutosh Tewari</i></p> <p>2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer 5<br /><i>Murali Varma and Ashish Chandra</i></p> <p>3 Biology of Prostate Cancer 8<br /><i>R. William G. Watson and John M. Fitzpatrick</i></p> <p>4 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 11<br /><i>Robin Weston Anthony J. Costello and Declan G. Murphy</i></p> <p>5 Imaging of Prostate Cancer 14<br /><i>James Halls and Uday Patel</i></p> <p>6 Screening for Prostate Cancer 18<br /><i>Richard J. Bryant and Freddie C. Hamdy</i></p> <p>7 Active Surveillance 22<br /><i>Judith Dockray Pardeep Kumar Lars Holmberg and Gordon Muir</i></p> <p>8 Open Radical Prostatectomy 25<br /><i>Wim van Haute and Hein van Poppel</i></p> <p>9 Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy 29<br /><i>Pardeep Kumar and Declan Cahill</i></p> <p>10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy 33<br /><i>Ben Challacombe and Jim Peabody</i></p> <p>11 Prostate Brachytherapy 37<br /><i>Peter Acher and Rick Popert</i></p> <p>12 HIFU 40<br /><i>Louise Dickinson Hashim U. Ahmed and Mark Emberton</i></p> <p>13 Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer 44<br /><i>Alastair Henderson and John Davies</i></p> <p>14 Advances in External Beam Radiotherapy 48<br /><i>David Landau Nadia Walsh and Asad Qureshi</i></p> <p>15 Recent Advances in Hormonal Therapy 51<br /><i>Heather Payne Reena Davda and Mark R. Feneley</i></p> <p>16 Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer 54<br /><i>Roger S. Kirby Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick</i></p> <p>17 Immunology of Prostate Cancer 57<br /><i>Oussama Elhage Christine Galustian Richard Smith and Prokar Dasgupta</i></p> <p>18 New Approaches to Prostate Cancer 63<br /><i>Megan S. Schober Roger S. Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta</i></p> <p>Index 67</p>

<b>Prokar Dasgupta</b> is Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, King's College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London <p><b>Roger S. Kirby</b> is Consultant Urologist, The Prostate Centre, London</p> <p>Foreword by Peter T. Scardino</p>

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