Description
Understanding Prostate Cancer 2e chart has been completely updated with new staging information. This chart:
- Describes the role of the prostate and defines prostate cancer
- Illustrates a normal prostate in context of the surrounding anatomy
- Lists risk factors and signs & symptoms for Prostate Cancer.
- Describes diagnostic and screening tests and provides an image of a digital rectal exam (DRE) and a transrectal biopsy
- Illustrates and describes the stages I - IV of prostate cancer
- Also provides an explanation of the most commonly used staging system, the Tumor-Nodes-Metastasis (TNM) system
- Shows and describes the Gleason pathologic scoring system, which grades the aggressiveness of the disease (how fast the cancer will go and spread)
- Valuable tool for Oncology and Urology patient education
Made in USA
Available in the following versions:
- 20" x 26" heavy weight paper laminated with grommets at top corners ISBN 9781451191684
- 20" x 26" heavy weight paper ISBN 9781451191691
About the Author(s)
- James Gulley MD, PhD
- Staff Clinician, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Specs
- Product Format: Laminated
- ISBN: 9781451191691
- Trim Size: 20 x 26
- Pub Date: Feb 26, 2013
