Main description:

Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma represents the first book of its kind to be dedicated solely to UTUC. It's aim is to improve understanding and eventually care of a disease that is greatly understudied and underappreciated, yet commonly dealt with by many medical and urologic oncologists. The volume features new data regarding genetic susceptibility, gene expression studies and causative factors; contemporary concepts and controversies regarding diagnosis and staging of UTUC; prediction tools and their value in treatment decisions within each disease stage and patient selection and treatment options such as endoscopic management, distal ureterectomy, radical nephroureterectomy and chemotherapy. Up-to-date information regarding boundaries of surgical resection, indication and extent of lymphadenectomy is covered as well as the role of perioperative/neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with high-risk UTUC.

Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma will be of great value to all Urologists, Medical Oncologists and fellows in Urologic Oncology as well as upper level residents in training in Urology and Medical Oncology.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology and risk factors for upper urinary urothelial cancers

Kathleen G. Dickman, Hans-Martin Fritsche, Arthur P. Grollman, George N. Thalmann and James Catto

2. Diagnosis and Evaluation of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC)

Pierre Colin, Wassim Kassouf, Badrinath R. Konety, Yair Lotan, and Morgan Roupret

3. Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Pathology

Steven Christopher Smith, Premal Patel, Mahul B. Amin, and Kiril Trpkov

4. Prognostics factors, molecular markers and predictive tools in upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Evanguelos Xylinas, Giacomo Novara, Mesut Remzi, Pierre Karakiewicz and Shahrokh F. Shariat

5. Conservative management of low-risk UTUC

Fatima Z. Husain, Mesut Remzi, Vitaly Margulis, Sima P. Porten, Surena F. Matin

6. Surgical Management of High-risk Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Georgios Gakis, Ashish M. Kamat, Vitaly Margulis, Seth P. Lerner and Arnulf Stenzl

7. The Role of Lymphadenectomy in the Management of Urothelial Carcinoma of the Upper Urinary Tract

Tsunenori Kondo, Bernard H. Bochner, Siamak Daneshmand and Alexandre R. Zlotta

8. Chemotherapy

Arjun Vasant Balar, Matthew D. Galsky, Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, Scott T. Tagawa, Matthew I. Milowsky