title: Predictive medicine in non-malignant urological disorders.
abstract: The potential of disease prediction in non-malignant disorders should not be undervalued. Such disorders present several characteristics which make them suitable for disease prediction: they can be wide-spread, strongly affect the patients' quality of life, lead to a heavy burden on social health expenses and have a protracted clinical course. Moreover, people who present a high risk for non-malignant disease can be successfully introduced to long-term preventive measures such as lifestyle modifications, dietary changes and improvement in hygienic conditions. There is a growing demand for developing predictive medical strategies in urology. While urological cancers are the main focus of interest, we analyse the potentialities and challenges of predictive medicine in non-malignant urological disorders, with particular attention to benign prostate hyperplasia and urolithiasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Padova Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova, Italy. mariangela.mancini@unipd.it
authors.forename: Mariangela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cisternino
authors.forename: Ivan Matteo
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Tavolini
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dal Moro
authors.forename: Pierfrancesco
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bassi
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D012008:Recurrence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology