Cancer of the bladder

The development of the illness is looked at from a dual perspective – histological and molecular – with a view to detailing the prognostic factors that will guide doctors in providing treatment.
Superficial tumours that have not infiltrated the muscle of the bladder but are still malignant call for a urological approach to allow diagnosis and treatment appropriate to the prognostic factors.
Tumours that have infiltrated the muscle call for a multidisciplinary approach that brings together urologists, radiotherapists and cancer specialists.
For localised tumours, the benchmark treatment is total cystectomy. When metastasis has occurred, chemotherapy is still preferred.
This book will help doctors to orient their diagnostic and therapeutic approach and to provide the best possible information to patients suffering from cancer of the bladder.
Au sommaire :
- Epidémiologie des tumeurs de vessie
- Histoire naturelle et facteurs pronostiques des tumeurs de vessie. Le point de vue de l’anatomo-pathologiste
- Apport de la biologie moléculaire dans le diagnostic des cancers de la vessie
- Tumeurs superficielles de la vessie
- Tumeurs infiltrantes localisées. Les modalités de la chirurgie
- Tumeurs infiltrantes localisées. Les indications et les résultats de la chirurgie
- Tumeurs infiltrantes et localisées. Place de la radio-chimiothérapie concomitante
- Tumeurs infiltrantes localisées. La place de la chimiothérapie
- Prise en charge des stades métastatiques