Prostate cancer is treated in a number of different ways, depending on a host of different factors, ranging from the severity of the cancer, the health of the patient, their age, and their own personal choice of treatment. Whether the choice is open or laparoscopic surgery, laser treatment or cryoablation, ultimately, the options open to the urologic surgeon today are modelled and defined specific to the patient's individual needs. Treatment Methods for Early and Advanced Prostate Cancer focusses on the "how to treat" scenario faced by urologic surgeons treating all stages of prostate cancer by examining all the methods used to treat the condition.Specifically targeting the fully qualified urologic surgeon, but also highly useful for residents and trainee surgeons wishing to learn and improve their treatment techniques, Treatment Methods for Early and Advanced Prostate Cancer is undoubtedly an extremely popular tool indeed.

Section A: General Considerations Affecting Treatment Options for Patients with Prostate Cancer 1. Mortality trends in prostate cancer 2. Decision-making for men with prostate cancer 3. Practical and realistic lifestyle changes and supplements for the man concerned about prostate cancer: what do I tell my patients 4. Preservation of sexual function in prostate cancer treatment 5. Quality of life instruments for prostate cancer Section B: Treatment Options for localised prostate cancer 6. Comparison of treatment modalities for prostate cancer by quality of life instruments 7. Natural history and expectant management of prostate cancer 8. Clinical trials comparing expectant management to definitive treatment of prostate cancer (PIVOT, Holmberg, PROTECT, etc.) 9. Anatomical considerations of radical prosptatectomy 10. Anatomic radical retropubic prostatectomy 11. Radical retropubic prostatectomy: contemporary modifications 12. The role of lymphadenectomy in prostate cancer 13. Clinical management of rising prostate specific antigen after radical retropubic prostatectomy 14. Radical perineal prostatectomy 15. Laparoscopic and robotic radical prostatectomy 16. Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy 17. Making the transition from open to roboticlly assisted radical prostatectomy 18. Initial management of high risk early stage prostate cancer: surgery 19. Prevention And Management Of Complications Associated With Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy 20. External beam radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer 21. Brachytherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer 22. High dose rate as monotherapy or as a boost: the new prostate brachytherapy 23. Magnetic resonance image-guided partial prostatic irradiation in select patients with clinically localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate 24. H