Abstract
Genitourinary cancer is an important topic in the current era. Understanding the disease is important to tailor the treatment for individual patients. Clinical aspects and investigations are part and parcel in cancer diagnosis. Genitourinary cancer encompasses multiple cancers but five important cancers are discussed in this chapter. This includes renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, urothelial cancer, testicular cancer and penile cancer. Other subtypes or variants are beyond the scope of this chapter. This chapter is to encourage the readers to better understand the clinical aspects and investigations that are commonly used in genitourinary cancer.
Investigations play a major role in diagnosis of genitourinary cancer. Understanding the principles of the imaging is important to appreciate and interpret a particular imaging modality. The principles of the imaging are mentioned at the start of the chapter. We have placed the clinical aspects and investigations for individual cancers mentioned above and tailored the topics to include appropriate investigations and salient features to take note in the imaging.
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Durai, P., Wu, Q.H., Chiong, E. (2019). Clinical Aspects and Investigations in Genitourinary Cancer. In: Merseburger, A., Burger, M. (eds) Urologic Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42623-5_46
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