| European School of Urology Courses |
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ESU Course 24: Local and locally advanced prostate cancer |
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| Chair: B. Djavan, Vienna (AT) |
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| Aims and objectives: The decision process towards surgery/active surveillance or radiation is a cosntantly evolving matter that requires a multitude of various informations and inputs. In localised disease old habits have been jeopardized and surgical management seems to be fused with active surveillance in an increasing number of patients with good prognosticators. This course will summarize the decison process and indications for patients with clinically localised disease and help slect the optimal treatment based on most recent oncological and functional data. In locally advanced disease, growing evidence supports the notion of radical surgery to improve outcome. US and European data endorse this policy in a selected goup of patients. New Radiation protocolls and strategies combined with hormon therapy offer adequate alternatives as much. In the second part of this course, controversies regarding the optimal management of localy advanced prostate cancer patients will be discussed and clear recommendations made to facilitate patient counseling and treatment. |
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