Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer : A New Paradigm for Clinical Management
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat31028
Laurence Klotz, editor.
--New York, NY:
Humana Press
, c2012.
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Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management will serve as a useful resource for physicians dealing with, and interested in, this complex and evolving branch of prostate cancer management. The book will also be of interest to scientifically literate patients and their families. The volume provides an introduction to the concept of active surveillance in oncology in general and prostate cancer specifically. The primary focus is to provide a comprehens…
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- Klotz, Laurence
- Responsibility
- Laurence Klotz, editor
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 208 p. : 33 ill., 22 ill. in color)
- Series Title
- Current clinical urology
- ISBN
- 9781617799129
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Disease Progression
- Early Diagnosis
- Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis
- Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy
- Watchful Waiting
- Abstract
- Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management will serve as a useful resource for physicians dealing with, and interested in, this complex and evolving branch of prostate cancer management. The book will also be of interest to scientifically literate patients and their families. The volume provides an introduction to the concept of active surveillance in oncology in general and prostate cancer specifically. The primary focus is to provide a comprehensive guide to the management of patients on surveillance. The volume covers the many complexities and nuances to this approach including, patient selection, risk assessment, how to overcome 'cancer hysteria' when counseling patients, identifying appropriate triggers for intervention, use of PSA kinetics and MR imaging information, technique and frequency of biopsies, secondary prevention interventions, and the relative roles of surveillance and focal therapy.
- Contents
- 1. The Problem of Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment -- 2. Patient Selection for Active Surveillance -- 3. Predicting High Risk Disease Using Tissue Biomarkers -- 4. Predicting High Risk Disease Using Serum and DNA Biomarkers -- 5. Triggers for Intervention in Men on Surveillance -- 6. The Role of MRI in Active Surveillance -- 7. Active Surveillance: The European Experience -- 8. Active Surveillance: The Canadian Experience -- 9. Psychosocial Aspects of Active Surveillance -- 10. Statistical Considerations for Patient Selection and Triggers for Intervention in Active Surveillance -- 11. Interpreting PSA Kinetics using GLMM Technique -- 12. The Potential Benefits of Diet and Physical Activity among Active Surveillance Patients with Low-Burden Prostate Cancer -- 13. The Role of 5[alpha]-Reductase Inhibitors (5-ARIs) in Expectant Management of Low Risk Prostate Cancer -- 14. Urologists' Opinion on Active Surveillance: United States vs. the Netherlands -- 15. Clinical "Pearls" in Managing Patients on Surveillance -- 16. Active Surveillance, Focal Therapy and the Future -- 17. The Economics of Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer -- 18. The Future of Active Surveillance.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Imaging and Focal Therapy of Early Prostate Cancer
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41634
Thomas J. Polascik, editor.
(Second edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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This text encompass an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art for gland preserving therapies. Fully updated and revised, this text evaluates the scientific evidence for the evolving trend to treat intermediate risk, clinically localized prostate cancer in a focally ablative manner with novel gland-preserving, focal therapy methods. Various ablative devices such as high intensity focused ultrasound, irreversible electroporation, photodynamic therapy, cryotherapy and laser ablat…
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- Polascik, Thomas J
- Responsibility
- Thomas J. Polascik, editor
- Edition
- Second edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 483 pages) : 133 illus., 97 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Current clinical urology
- ISBN
- 9783319499116
- 9783319499109 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2197-7194
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ablation Techniques - methods
- Early Diagnosis
- Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis
- Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy
- Abstract
- This text encompass an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art for gland preserving therapies. Fully updated and revised, this text evaluates the scientific evidence for the evolving trend to treat intermediate risk, clinically localized prostate cancer in a focally ablative manner with novel gland-preserving, focal therapy methods. Various ablative devices such as high intensity focused ultrasound, irreversible electroporation, photodynamic therapy, cryotherapy and laser ablation, among others, is discussed in regard to their strengths and limitations as a therapeutic modality. Emphasis is placed on patient selection and outcomes utilizing both advanced imaging techniques and pathologic evaluation. Current and new approaches to image cancer foci within the prostate (multiparametric ultrasonography, multiparametric magnetic resonance image, etc.) are presented along with various biopsy techniques, including robotics to map prostate cancer. Patient selection based on imaging and genomic classification, adjuvants to enhance therapy, treatment strategy, outcomes and patient centered concerns is discussed, providing an acceptable balance between cancer control and improved quality of life for patients. Written by experts in the field and lavishly illustrated with detailed line-art and photographs, Imaging and Focal Therapy of Early Prostate Cancer, Second Edition is designed as a comprehensive resource for urologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, radiologists, uropathologists, molecular biologists, biomedical engineers, other clinicians--residents, fellows, nurses and allied professionals--and researchers with an interest in the diagnosis and novel treatment of prostate cancer. It will provide insight into the latest research and clinical applications of image-guided diagnosis and minimally invasive focal, gland-preserving treatment for prostate cancer.
- Contents
- Evolution in the Concept of Focal Therapy: the Story of Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer -- Targeted Therapy for Localized Kidney Cancer -- Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Patients -- Low-Risk Prostate Cancer in North America: Rationale, Uptake, and Limitations of Active Surveillance and Opportunities for Focal Therapy -- Focal Therapy and Active Surveillance in Europe -- Focal Therapy and Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer in East and Southeast Asia -- Pathologic Rationale for Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer: Elucidating Tumor Characteristics and Biology -- Identifying and Characterizing the Index Lesion -- Utilizing Biopsy-Based Genomic Assays to Risk-Stratify Patients -- Patient Selection for Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer -- Prostate Focal Therapy: Definitions and Common Terminology -- Reading and Reporting Standards: The Prostate Imaging Reporting And Data System Çô What Is It and What Can It Do? -- Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Prostate Cancer Assessment -- Optimizing Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for a Focal Therapy Practice: Quality Improvement -- Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging for Targeting: Correlation with Histology -- In-Bore Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Targeted Biopsy -- Multiparametric MRI-TRUS Fusion Biopsy, Outcomes, and Commercial Systems -- Detecting, Localizing, and Treating the Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Invisible Lesion: Utilizing Three-Dimensional Transperineal Mapping -- Multiparametric Transrectal Ultrasound Biopsy -- Robotic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Targeting for Biopsy and Therapy -- In-Bore Transperineal Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Laser Ablation -- Focal Cryoablation -- Photodynamic Therapy for Early Prostate Cancer -- High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound -- Transrectal Laser Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer -- Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: a Molecular Biology Approach with TRAIL -- Focal Therapy for Anterior Cancers (Originated from Transition Zone) -- The Story of Adjuvants to Boost the Performance of Cryoablation -- 5-Alpha-Reductase Inhibition as a Secondary Preventive Strategy -- Measuring Patient-Based Outcomes: Setting Realistic Expectations When Balancing Functional Outcomes with Cancer Control -- Pathologic Assessment and Implications Following Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer -- Post-Treatment Surveillance Using Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- Determining Focal Therapy Failure and Salvage Options.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS : Early Diagnostic Clues
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat46081
Yu-Ye Li, Kun-Hua Wang, Li He, editors.
--Singapore:
Springer ; People's Medical Publishing House
, c2020.
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This book introduces a number of HIV/AIDS cases with mucocutaneous lesions. HIV/AIDS can manifest a variety of skin lesions due to immunological disorder, opportunistic infections and tumors always occur primarily with skin lesions. The cases included in this book reflect the diseases spectrum and evolution of mucocutaneous lesions at different stages before and after AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well. This book consists of nine chapters, including fungal, viral, bacterial, parasitic, n…
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- Other Authors
- Li, Yu-Ye
- Wang, Kun-Hua
- He, Li
- Responsibility
- Yu-Ye Li, Kun-Hua Wang, Li He, editors
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer ; People's Medical Publishing House
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 271 p.) : 569 illus., 554 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9789811554674
- 9789811554667 (Print ed.)
- 9789811554681 (Print ed.)
- 9789811554698 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - diagnosis
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Early Diagnosis
- HIV Infections - diagnosis
- Skin Manifestations
- Specialty
- Dermatology
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pathology
- Abstract
- This book introduces a number of HIV/AIDS cases with mucocutaneous lesions. HIV/AIDS can manifest a variety of skin lesions due to immunological disorder, opportunistic infections and tumors always occur primarily with skin lesions. The cases included in this book reflect the diseases spectrum and evolution of mucocutaneous lesions at different stages before and after AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well. This book consists of nine chapters, including fungal, viral, bacterial, parasitic, neoplastic, inflammatory diseases, syphilis and ART-induced diseases, etc. More than 300 cases and 600 photos of representative and important clinical significances are selected, showing the different clinical characteristics of the same disease under different immune status. Clinical photos are combined with clear and concise medical history along with the discussion on it, by which the readers can understand why skin lesions can be used as the early diagnostic clues to HIV/AIDS infection. Moreover, every chapter summarizes the similarity and characteristics of each type of skin diseases, which outlines and explains why they are AIDS-related mucocutaneous lesions.
- Contents
- 1. Mycoses in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 2. Viral Dermatoses in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 3. Bacterial Dermatoses in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 4. Syphilis in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 5. Parasitic Dermatosis in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 6. Neoplastic Diseases in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 7. Inflammatory Dermatosis in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 8. ART-Related Diseases in HIV/AIDS Patients -- 9. Other Dermatoses in HIV/AIDS Patients.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Atlas
- Location
- Online
Practical management of dementia : a multi-professional approach
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25675
edited by Stephan Curran, John P. Wattis.
(2nd ed.)
--London, UK:
Radcliffe Publishing
, 2011.
- Call Number
- WM 220 C976p 2011
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 220 C976p 2011
- Other Authors
- Curran, Stephan
- Wattis, John P
- Responsibility
- edited by Stephan Curran, John P. Wattis
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Publisher
- Radcliffe Publishing
- Date of Publication
- 2011
- Physical Description
- x, 266 p. : ill.
- ISBN
- 9781846194122
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Aged - psychology
- Dementia - diagnosis
- Dementia - therapy
- Early Diagnosis
- Mentally Ill Persons - legislation & jurisprudence
- Other Subjects
- United Kingdom
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Timely Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42988
edited by Louise Olsson.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2018.
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This book summarizes current knowledge and outlines directions for the future on how to improve the art of diagnosing colorectal cancer with emphasis on timeliness, one of the most vital issues in cancer management. Using a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach, it provides an overview of decisive factors in timely diagnosis of colorectal cancer from symptom scores and symptom awareness to technical aspects. The book starts by discussing early diagnosis from the perspective of patients, in…
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- Olsson, Louise
- Responsibility
- edited by Louise Olsson
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 119 p.) : 8 illus., 7 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319652863
- 9783319652856 (print ed.)
- 9783319652870 (print ed.)
- 9783319879925 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Colorectal Neoplasms - diagnosis
- Early Diagnosis
- Specialty
- Gastroenterology
- Medical Oncology
- Abstract
- This book summarizes current knowledge and outlines directions for the future on how to improve the art of diagnosing colorectal cancer with emphasis on timeliness, one of the most vital issues in cancer management. Using a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach, it provides an overview of decisive factors in timely diagnosis of colorectal cancer from symptom scores and symptom awareness to technical aspects. The book starts by discussing early diagnosis from the perspective of patients, including the importance of awareness in the general population as well as psychological aspects. It then goes on to discuss issues of importance to clinicians, such as fast tracking, laboratory testing, improving technical skills and optimizing endoscopy services. In addition, more practical issues such as cost-effectiveness and auditing are also extensively discussed. By focusing on one specific but common form of cancer the content translates well across the scope of other cancer types and can be used by professionals working on different cancer types. This book provides clinicians, clinical researchers and policymakers with a comprehensive overview of the field of timeliness in diagnosing colorectal cancer. By addressing the challenges posed in the management of symptomatic patients it informs and educates the experts and could help improve diagnosis.
- Contents
- General introduction of timely diagnosis of cancer -- Symptom awareness and cancer knowledge in the general population -- Fear of cancer and wishful thinking - psychological aspects of early diagnosis of cancer -- Prevalence of alarm symptoms in the general population (eg rectal bleeding) -- The value of symptom scores -- Technical skills in diagnosing colorectal cancer (rectal palpation, rigid rectoscopy) -- Fast-track solutions (2 weeks wait in UK, "cancer packages" in Denmark) -- Pre-selection for invasive investigations using laboratory tests (f-calprotectin and i-FOBT) -- Making use of family history -- Optimizing endoscopy services (managing waiting lists, sigmoidoscopy vs colonoscopy) -- Cost-effectiveness of CT colonography vs colonoscopy -- Emergency presentation of colon cancer -- The role of quality registers and audits -- Prognostic impact of timeliness in diagnosing colorectal cancer -- Psychological impact of diagnostic delay on patients and staff -- The role of clinical decision support system -- Risk assessment.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Vulnerability to psychosis : from neurosciences to psychopathology
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25585
Fusar-Poli, Paolo.
--New York, NY:
Psychology Press
, 2012.
- Call Number
- WM 200 F993v 2012
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 200 F993v 2012
- Author
- Fusar-Poli, Paolo
- Other Authors
- Borgwardt, Stefan
- McGuire, Philip
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Date of Publication
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 190 p.
- Series Title
- Maudsley series
- ISBN
- 9781848720879
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Psychotic Disorders - physiopathology
- Brain - physiopathology
- Early Diagnosis
- Genetic predisposition to disease
- Psychotic Disorders - diagnosis
- Risk Factors
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
