Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on the expertise of an international community of experts in the field, this book provides the reader with all aspects of diagnosis and treatment pertaining to bladder cancer. The book also includes a cd-rom containing the figures and legends from each chapter in a user-friendly format, in order to further aid the reader.
Table of ContentsSection 1 Treatment 1. Transurethral resection of bladder tumors 2. Perioperative instillation of chemotherapeutic drugs 3. The Role of Intravesical Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Bladder Cancer 4. Intravesical Chemotherapy of Superficial Bladder Cancer: Optimization and Novel Agents 5. Intravesical Immunotherapy: BCG 6. G3T1 bladder carcinoma 7. What to do When BCG Fails Section 2 T2-4 8. Selection and Peri-operative Management of Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Reconstruction 9. Radical Cystectomy: Technique and Outcomes 10. Cystectomy in the Female 11. Nerve Sparing: Radical Cystectomy 12. Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion 13. Role of Extended Lymphadenectomy 14. Management of the urethra in the cystectomy patient 15. Role of radical cystectomy in patients with unresectable and/or loco-regionally metastatic bladder cancer Section 3 Primary Bladder Sparing Therapy 16. Radical TURBT 17. Partial Cystectomy 18. Optimal Radiotherapy for Bladder Cancer 19. Trimodality Therapy in the Management of Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Selective Organ-preserving Approach Section 4 Urinary Tract Reconstruction 20. Orthotopic Neobladder 21. Continent Cutaneous Diversion 22. Noncontinent urinary diversion Section 5 Treatment of Regionally Advanced and Metastatic Bladder Cancer 23. Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer 24. Adjuvant Chemotherapy for invasive Bladder Cancer 25. Treatment of Metastatic Cancer
