Bertoldo, F., Boccardo, F., Bombardieri, E., Evangelista, L., Valdagni, R. (Eds.) Bone Metastases from Prostate Cancer: Biology, Diagnosis and Management

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This is a very interesting book centered on bone metastases from prostate cancer, edited and authored by a multidisciplinary team with specific experience in the field. The editors are five internationally well-known Italian experts: (1) a clinician, Francesco Bertoldo, Director of the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Osteoncology Unit, Internal Medicine, University of Verona, (2) an oncologist, Francesco Boccardo, working at the IRCCS AOU San Martino – IST National Cancer Research Institute, University of Genova, (3 and 4) two experts in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine, Emilio Bombardieri, at present Scientific Director at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Clinic in Bergamo, and Laura Evangelista, from the Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV – IRCCS, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular imaging Unit, Padova, and (5) a radiotherapist, Riccardo Valdagni, Radiation Oncology 1 and Prostate Cancer Program, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori and Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milano. …