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Understanding Prostate Cancer
Second Edition
By
Anatomical Chart Company
Laminated Chart / ISBN: 978-1-4511-9169-1 / ($19.95 / £10.50+VAT / €12.00 + VAT)
Heavy Paper Chart / ISBN: 978-1-4511-9168-4 / ($10.95 / £4.95 + VAT / €6.00 + VAT)
20 x 26 / March 2013
Description
Understanding Prostate Cancer, Second Edition
has been
completely updated with new staging information. This chart
comprehensively overviews the prostate and prostate cancer, serving as an excellent resource for the
classroom or as a patient education resource.
FEATURES
Illustrates a normal prostate in context of the surrounding anatomy
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Lists risk factors and signs & symptoms for Prostate Cancer.
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Describes diagnostic and screening tests and provides an image of a digital rectal exam (DRE)
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and a transrectal biopsy
Illustrates and describes the stages I - IV of prostate cancer
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Also provides an explanation of the most commonly used staging system, the Tumor-Nodes-
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Metastasis (TNM) system
Shows and describes the Gleason pathologic scoring system, which grades the aggressiveness of
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the disease (how fast the cancer will go and spread)
ANATOMICAL CHARTS
Oncology
