Contemporary issues in prostate cancer: a nursing perspective. / [edited by] Jeanne Held-Warmkessel.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0763730750Subject(s): Prostate -- Cancer | Prostate -- Cancer -- Nursing | Prostatic Neoplasms -- nursingDDC classification: 616.99/463 LOC classification: RC280.P7.C67Online resources: Table of contentsItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY | RC280.P7.C67 (Browse shelf) | Available | KSN/999/999/19 |
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.
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