Invasive Bladder Cancer

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

Invasive Bladder Cancer draws on the expertise of an international
community of experts in the area. It offers an updated, simple
overview bridging the information coming from basic research to
clinical practice, facilitated by most chapters having both a basic
researcher and a clinician writing together.


The book will be of particular interest to office urologists, and
oncologists with a specialist interest in urology.

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Epidemiology and prevention of bladder cancer.- Early diagnosis and
screening.- Non-invasive diagnosis.- Molecular pathology of tumour
progression and metastasis: an introduction.- Staging: past, present
and future.- MR imaging of the male pelvis.- Invasive bladder cancer:
prognostic factors.- Surgical management of muscle-invasive bladder
cancer.- Transurethral resection in patients with muscle-infiltrating
bladder cancer.- Nodal involvement.- Pre-operative and definitive
radiation therapy in bladder cancer.- Invasive bladder cancer: neo-
adjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy: true and false.- Oncological
rationale for function-sparing surgery.- Combination therapy and
function-sparing surgery for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.-
Metastatic transitional cell cancer: the state of the art.- Invasive
transitional cell cancer in the elderly.- Quality of life in patients
with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.- Urethra involvement and bladder
cancer.- Lower urinary tract reconstruction in patients with bladder
cancer.- Salvage cystectomy.