A Prostate Cancer Unit is a place where men can be cared for by specialists in prostate cancer (PC), working together within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The MDT approach guarantees a higher probability for the PC patient to receive adequate information on the disease and on all possible therapeutic strategies, balancing advantages and related side effects. Objecive: To analyze the role of a MDT in PC management and to compare some results in terms of characteristics and distribution of PC cases, obtained by a MDT, with those reported by a monodisciplinary urological unit. Outcome measurements and results: A high percentage of cases (47.6%) referred to our MDT were in the low risk group. In the Prostate cancer Unit the indications for primary therapies were more equally distributed between surgery (51.5%) and radiotherapy (45.4%).
Multidisciplinary management of Prostate Cancer: how and why / Sciarra, Alessandro; Gentile, Vincenzo; Panebianco, Valeria. - In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL UROLOGY. - ISSN 2330-1910. - 1:1(2013), p. 12-7.
Multidisciplinary management of Prostate Cancer: how and why
Sciarra, Alessandro;Panebianco, Valeria
2013
Abstract
A Prostate Cancer Unit is a place where men can be cared for by specialists in prostate cancer (PC), working together within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The MDT approach guarantees a higher probability for the PC patient to receive adequate information on the disease and on all possible therapeutic strategies, balancing advantages and related side effects. Objecive: To analyze the role of a MDT in PC management and to compare some results in terms of characteristics and distribution of PC cases, obtained by a MDT, with those reported by a monodisciplinary urological unit. Outcome measurements and results: A high percentage of cases (47.6%) referred to our MDT were in the low risk group. In the Prostate cancer Unit the indications for primary therapies were more equally distributed between surgery (51.5%) and radiotherapy (45.4%).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
