Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis

Chapter 1 Clinical Dilemmas and Problems in Assessing Prostatic Metastasis to Bone: The Scientific Challenge

Chapter 2 Comparative Study of Prostatic Carcinoma Bone Metastasis among Japanese in Japan and Japanese Americans and Whites in Hawaii

Chapter 3 Prostate Cancer in the United States and Japan

Chapter 4 Analysis of Survival of Prostate Cancer Patients in Japan and the USA

Chapter 5 The Cellular Basis for Prostate Cancer Metastasis

Chapter 6 Cytogenetic and Molecular Genetic Aspects of Human Prostate Cancer: Primary and Metastatic

Chapter 7 Hemodynamics Of Prostate Bone Metastases

Chapter 8 Role of the Vertebral Venous System in Metastatic Spread of Cancer Cells to the Bone

Chapter 9 Clinical Significance of the Vertebral Vein in Prostate Cancer Metastasis

Chapter 10 Effects of Various Growth Factors on a Chondrocyte Differentiation Model

Chapter 11 Potential Role of HBGF (FGF) and TGF-Beta on Prostate Growth

Chapter 12 Hormone Refractory Prostatic Cancer: The Role of Radiolabelled Diphosphonates and Growth Factor Inhibitors

Chapter 13 Localization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) in a Metastatic Cell Line (AT-3) Established from the Dunning Prostatic Carcinoma of Rat: Application of a Specific Monoclonal Antibody

Chapter 14 Use of a Reconstituted Basement Membrane to Study the Invasiveness of Tumor Cells

Chapter 15 Animal Prostate Carcinoma Models: Limited Potential for Vertebral Metastasis

Chapter 16 A Model for Studies on Human Prostatic Carcinoma

Chapter 17 Studies on the Pathogenesis of Osteoblastic Metastases by Prostate Cancer

Chapter 18 Analysis of Bone Metastasis of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma in 137 Autopsy Cases

Chapter 19 Nucleolar Organizer Regions in Prostate Cancer

Chapter 20 Flow Cytometric Analysis of Prostatic Carcinoma with and without Bone Marrow Metastasis

Chapter 21 Evaluation of the Response of Bone Metastases to Therapy

Chapter 22 Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Bone Metastases in Prostatic Cancer Patients

Chapter 23 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Bone Metastases

Chapter 24 Bone Marrow MRI in Prostate Cancer

Chapter 25 Bone Mineral Density for Patients with Bone Metastasis of Prostate Cancer: A Preliminary Report

Chapter 26 Quantification of Changes in Bone Scans of Patients with Osseous Metastases of Prostatic Carcinoma

Chapter 27 The Usefulness of Serum Acid Phosphatase in Monitoring Patients with Advanced Prostate Carcinoma

Chapter 28 Radiation Treatment of Prostate Bone Metastases and the Biological Considerations

Chapter 29 Clinical Course of Bone Metastasis from Prostatic Cancer Following Endocrine Therapy: Examination with Bone X-Ray

Chapter 30 Palliative Radiotherapy of Bone Metastasis

Chapter 31 Clinical Study of Bone-Related Relapse in Prostate Carcinoma

Chapter 32 Surgical Treatment of Metastatic Tumors of Long Bones and the Spine

Chapter 33 Hormone Therapy of Prostatic Bone Metastases