Urologic Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

The Department of Continuing Education of Harvard Medical School and members of the faculty of Harvard Medical School held a multidisciplinary course on the management of patients with urologic cancer in the fall of 1982. This course high­ lighted the multidisciplinary approach to the care of these patients, and outlined the clinical and pathophysiological basis for diagnosis and treatment. The term multidisciplinary was essential to the course in which the disciplines of uro­ logic surgery, medical oncology, and radiation therapy were each appropriately emphasized. Widespread interest in the contents of this course, and the timely and useful nature of much of the information presented there, has encouraged us to publish, in as rapid a manner as possible, new information and highlights of that course. A camera-ready format was used to allow rapid production, and a variety of disparate styles were maintained from chapter to chapter—some in prose, others in outline. Again, our intent was to disseminate information rapidly and accurately, and to that end, we felt that consistency of style was irrelevant.