Prostate Diseases

The care of the prostate patient has become truly multidisciplinary--involving urologists, family practitioners, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals--and a new successful paradigm has emerged, addressing the issues of diagnosis, therapeutics and quality of life supportive care.

This book draws on contributions from leading Canadian physicians in prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and prostatitis. It provides the practicing clinician and the educated layperson with definitive statements of current knowledge and practice. Prostate illnesses present a diverse and challenging set of problems to clinicians and scientists alike, and readers will gain an appreciation for the complexities of prevention, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis that doctors and patients face today.

From the preface by S. Larry Goldenberg, M.D.

Dr. Michael McCormack is a urologist, the assistant head of urology at the University of Montreal Hospital Centre ("Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, CHUM") and associate clinical professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal.

After completing his studies in medullary neurophysiology at McGill University, Dr. McCormack studied medicine at the University of Montreal. He received his doctorate in 1983 and finished his urology training in 1988. He chose to begin his career in private practice in Saint-Jean-sur-Rlchelieu, where he was also head of urology and head of the surgery unit at the local hospital. In 2000, he joined the urology team at the University of Montreal Hospital Centre.

Dr. McCormack served as chair of the Quebec college of physicians' urology examination committee and vice-chair of the Examination Board in urology at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. A past president of the Quebec Urological Association, he is currently responsible for the website of that organization as well as that of the surgery department of the University of Montreal. He has chaired the IT Committee of the Canadian Urological Association and is now co-editor of a quarterly journal put out by the University of Montreal surgery department.

Dr. McCormack has contributed several chapters to medical books and is the author of two books on medical topics for the general public: Male Sexual Health (2003) and Understanding Prostate Cancer (1st edition, 2004), which he co-authored and which has sold over 150,000 copies.

In 2010, Dr. McCormack was awarded a Prix Esculape in recognition of the excellence of his teaching at the University of Montreal Hospital Centre.

Dr. Fred Saad is a professor of surgery at the University of Montreal. He is currently chief of Urology and Director of Urologic Oncology at the University of Montreal Hospital Centre ("Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, CHUM"). He also heads the Molecular Prostate Cancer Research Lab at the Montreal Cancer Institute and is Director of Oncology Research at the CHUM research centre. Since 2004, he has held the University of Montreal Chair in Prostate Cancer Research. In 2005, he received the Leadership Award in Medicine from the University of Montreal Hospital Centre.

Dr. Fred Saad is a past president of the Quebec Urological Association and is currently president of the National Cancer Institute of Canada G-U Group, the Canadian Urologic Oncology Group and GU Global. He is a member of ten editorial boards and serves as a reviewer for more than 30 urology and oncology journals. He has published over 300 scientific articles and book chapters and has collaborated on over 800 scientific abstracts presented at scientific meetings around the world. He is co-editor of several books, including the first two editions of Understanding Prostate Cancer, which sold over 150,000 copies.

His main research interests include molecular prognostic markers in prostate cancer and new treatments for advanced prostate cancer. He is currently coordinating more than 40 clinical and basic research projects in urologic oncology. Nationally and internationally, he has been an invited speaker/professor over 300 times, due to his involvement in research and medical education.