Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiology, risk factors, and prevention strategies -- Screening and early detection -- Cellular characteristics, pathophysiology, and disease manifestations -- Initial assessment and diagnosis -- Staging of prostate cancer -- Treatment decision making -- Expectant management: the art and science of watchful waiting -- Surgery -- Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy -- External beam radiation therapy -- Interstitial brachytherapy -- hormonal therapy -- Treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer with chemotherapy -- Quality of life and prostate cancer -- Advanced prostate cancer: symptom management -- The use of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies in men with prostate cancer -- Prostate cancer resources for patients, families and professionals --

External beam radiation therapy / Heidi Volpe, Scott V. Watkins -- Interstitial brachytherapy / Jennifer Cash -- Hormonal therapy / Laura Stempkowski -- Treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer with chemotherapy / Jeanne Held-Warmkessel -- Quality of life and prostate cancer / Cynthia R. King -- Advanced prostate cancer: symptom management / Jeanne Held-Warmkessel -- The use of complementary and alternatieve (CAM) therapies in men with prostate cancer / Georgia M. Decker -- Prostate cancer resources for patients, families, and professionals / Carol Bleecher.