An Insider's Perspective of Prostate Cancer


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An Insider’s Perspective of Prostate Cancer: Understanding Effects, Management Options and Consequences provides scientifically based information on the management and treatment of prostate cancer. The text is designed to be neither prescriptive nor proscriptive, providing succinct, yet comprehensive details in ‘bite size chunks’ for ready assimilation and application. Sections cover recent approaches the prostate cancer landscape has made by providing background statistical and anatomical information that is followed by relevant genetic, immunological and background data. The book then proceeds to explain the mechanisms involved with cancer development and the spread and metastases that can occur in a minority of those diagnosed. In addition to acknowledging the importance of psychological effects of diagnosis and management interventions, the undervalued benefits of exercise are also emphasized, including information on holistic management. This comprehensive approach makes this a perfect reference for up-to-date information on all aspects of prostate cancer and its management. Provides succinct, yet comprehensive coverage on the management and treatment of prostate cancer and subsequent consequences for patients Reviews how prostate cancers change and how treatments can adapt Delivers guidance on how to assess information with ranking in terms of levels of evidence, thus enabling the evaluation of critical reports and claims made in relation to prostate cancer and other conditions




New Perspectives in Prostate Cancer


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A summary of the highlights of the Second International Forum on Prostate Cancer, held in Cambridge in 1998. The contributors include scientists, epidemiologists and clinicians who provide both a North American and a European view of treatment. The patient's perspective is also considered.




New Perspectives in Prostate Cancer, Second Edition


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A large portion of the text is devoted to the treatment of localized and advanced prostate cancer.




A Crash Course on Prostate Cancer


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Sometimes a woman just needs to hear certain things from another woman. And one of those times is when your husband may have prostate cancer. When author Lynne Rosenberg, a registered nurse and wife of a medical doctor, began to research this disease after her husband Mark was diagnosed, she found very little useful information about the day-to-day decisions and difficulties they would face. Scrambling to decipher test results, procedures, medications, and side effects, she discovered that each woman faces this process as if facing uncharted territory. Prostate cancer involves the physical and mental mechanisms that in some ways define both masculinity and intimacy, and Rosenberg confronts these subjects with refreshing frankness. After devoting more than a year to her husband's illness, treatment, and recovery, she has organized her experience into a readable and rational discussion that can help prepare women to deal with everything for which she herself had no preparation. While not intended to replace the doctor, nurse, or counselor in the management of this disease, A Crash Course on Prostate Cancer: From One Woman's Perspective will provide you with the support that only another woman can give.




Prostate Cancer


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Humanizing Prostate Cancer


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In this third edition of Humanizing Prostate Cancer, urologist Roger Schultz and prostate cancer survivor Alex W. Oliver continue their mission to help men and their families cope with prostate cancer. In a unique conversation between physician and patient, the authors present a fresh angle that includes a strong medical foundation, sound advice, and sensitivity to men who must face this diagnosis. This edition also includes recent developments in prostate cancer research and treatment.




Our Journey with Prostate Cancer


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"Your spirit is your most important personal weapon in the battle with cancer!" Writing from the unique perspective of an oncology social worker, a holistic psychotherapist, and the wife of a patient with high-risk prostate cancer Judith Desjardins shares the intimate details of their journey and the empowering strategies she devised to turn a pessimistic prognosis into improbable, positive, and hopeful results. This book is a firsthand picture of the emotional and psychological toll that prostate cancer takes on patients and their loved ones, and shows how it affects them on the inside-the mind, emotions, and spirit. It is her firm belief that understanding and treating these dimensions of the disease as well as the body, in a holistic approach,can lead to a better prognosis for the prostate cancer patient-and that it can also prevent family caretakers from developing their own medical problems due to stress. AWARDS FOR OUR JOURNEY WITH PROSTATE CANCER The 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards Winner Category: Men's Health The 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards Award-Winning Finalist Category: Cancer Readers' Favorite 2015 International Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Category: Non Fiction - Health-Fitness The 2015 International Book Awards Winner Category: Health: Cancer The 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner Category: Cancer The 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner Category: Men's Health Reader Views 2014/2015 Book Awards Winner Category: Body, Mind, Spirit Reader Views 2014/2015 Book Awards Winner The Best Body/Health Book The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention Winner Category: Health The 2015 Pacific Book Awards Award- Winning Finalist Category: Self-Help The 2014 USA Best Books Awards First Runner -Up Category: Health/Cancer




A Revolutionary Approach to Prostate Cancer


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A comprehensive, newly revised edition about prostate cancer detection and diagnosis.




Navigating Through Prostate Cancer


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Readers will find this easy-to-read Navigating Through Prostate Cancer guide to be concise, clear and informative. It was written with passion, humor and the desire to make a difficult situation easier to manage. Most importantly, the guide was written to help each reader to arrive at the best treatment decisions for themselves. This is accomplished by providing ways to enhance discussions with doctors and others so that one collects ALL the relevant information necessary for a successful outcome. The authors have translated their personal prostate cancer journey experiences into a guide applicable to all. It provides a short description of the function of the prostate and how a man's "plumbing" works for both sexual intercourse and urination. This is intended to reduce the misconceptions (and fears) that can drive less than optimal decision making. This is followed with a description of the overall process that directs everyone's journey from beginning to end. Next, are explanations of potential tests, how they would be conducted and how to interpret their results. From here, each of the treatment options are explained with the pros and cons of each. Also included are practical solutions to recovery outcomes such as incontinence. Finally, the emotional roller coaster associated with any cancer is discussed with ways to help smooth out the ride. Although the authors are not physicians, the contents of the book have been reviewed by several doctors who represent different aspects of the prostate cancer journey. Comments received during an extensive review process include: "This is SO needed," "Every man facing the potential of having prostate cancer needs to read this book," and, "This easy-to-read book covers it all."