Preface

In this book titled "Prostate Cancer - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances", we highlight many of the significant advances made in our treatment armamentarium of prostate cancer. This book is a tribute to our pioneering urologists and allied healthcare professionals who have continually pushed forward our traditional therapeutic envelope. The present book is subdivided into four sections termed: 1) novel diagnostic approaches, 2) surgical treatments options, 3) radiation therapy and its potential sequelae, and 4) medical management and its treatment complications. After reading the present book , readers will be very familiar with the major clinical advances made in our multifaceted treatment approach to prostate cancer over the past decade.

As editor-in-chief of this book, I would like to acknowledge the significant efforts made by all of the contributing authors and entire editorial team in the publishing of this work. Their dedication to the publication of the most contemporary and comprehensive scientific data has resulted in this truly excellent work. I would like to dedicate this book to my clinical mentors at both McGill University and the University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center. You have taught me not only to manage genitourinary malignancies using the highest quality surgical and medical care but as well have instilled in me a sense of responsibility to our scientific community to contribute in a meaningful way and to continually improve myself as a person and clinician. I practice medicine today following the principle your engrained with me which is to treat each individual patient as if this was my own close family member.

> **Philippe E. Spiess,** Editor-In-Chief Assistant Professor, Dept of Genitourinary Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida USA

**Scott Eggener, M.D.** Assistant Professor, Department of Urology University of Chicago, Chicago USA

#### **Vladimir Mourariev, M.D., Ph.D.**  Department of Urology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio USA
