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"Each year, more than 230,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 30 to 40 percent of patients who are diagnosed will eventually relapse. But the good news is that more men are being cured of this disease than ever before. Now in a revised third edition, this lifesaving guide by Dr. Patrick Walsh and award-winning science writer Janet Farrar Worthington offers a message of hope to every man facing this illness. Prostate cancer is a different...
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Jones & Bartlett Learning
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English
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"Whether you're a newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the doctor's and patient's point of view, 100 Questions and Answers About Prostate Cancer gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more." --
3) The great prostate hoax: how big medicine hijacked the PSA test and caused a public health disaster
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Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But, the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The...
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"One of the world's preeminent prostate cancer doctors offers the authoritative and definitive guide for men of all ages for better prostate health and longevity. The book is sure to become for prostate health what Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book has been for breast health the book that everyone will want to read. For the 20 million men who are currently coping with prostate health issues in the U.S., and for the 200,000 diagnosed with prostate cancer...
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Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Prostate problems are among the most common reasons men see their doctors. That's because with age most men experience some type of prostate problem - enlargement, inflammation or cancer. Mayo Clinic on Prostate Health, 3rd Edition is an easy-to-read yet comprehensive guide to preventing, understanding, treating and living with prostate disease. Advances in research, an explosion in sophisticated imaging technology and new medical procedures have...
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New York Times editor Dana Jennings describes how the family dog helped his family through its darkest hour. At one time, Jennings was struggling with prostate cancer while his son suffered with liver failure. However, their twelve-year-old miniature poodle Bijou kept joy in their lives and helped them heal both physically and spiritually.
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Addicus Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"More than 200,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually in the United States. Another 5 million men are living with the disease. The good news is that prostate cancer, when detected early, is very curable. And even when it is not curable, it can still be treated, giving a man many more years of life. Author Arthur Centeno, MD, is a specialist in prostate health and prostate cancer, who understands the anxiety that often accompanies a cancer...
13) How I survived prostate cancer-- and so can you: a guide for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer
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Health Education Literary Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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Vital Health Press/Health Outside the Box
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"This colorful, hand-on, user-friendly book provides the kind of information you would hope to receive after seeing several prostrate cancer specialists who practice different kinds of medicine. [This book] walks readers through 10 key steps of a prostrate cancer diagnosis and combines and easy-to-read format with interactive sections at the end of each chapter and an in-depth "Digging Deeper" section at the end of the book. This mixture of information...
