| Description |
xix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Up in the air to ponder: what could this thing be? -- BPH and other nonmalignant problems: maybe its just that we're getting older -- Here comes the finger: doctor's suspicions aroused -- When the two-by-four hits you: the symptoms, if any at all -- What the exams are like: meet the searching machines -- A pigeonhole just for you: what it means to be graded and staged -- Just how sick are you? Understanding the PSA, gleason grades and such -- Treatment options: they want you to decide! -- The ray gun or the knife: you're the prize in this ongoing debate -- The turrible TURP: what it's like to go through the operation -- Patient meets the ray gun: will I glow in the dark? -- They can plant "seeds" in you: laying radioactivity directly on the tumor -- Cryosurgery: very deep freeze for the cancerous prostate -- The radical prostatectomy: get that problem out of there! -- Hormonal ablation: blocking your androgens with surgery or drugs -- Advanced (C&D) cancers: serious business, but treatable -- Recurrent and residual cancers: what if it comes back to me? -- Potency: will I ever get it up again? -- Direct from the doc: the important questions for you to ask your doctor -- The time bomb itself: where and what is the prostate and what does it do? -- The track of the sperm: a thirteen-week journey -- What causes this cancer? Is it something we eat? Or where we work? -- The numbers: can we depend on them? Maybe statistics hide the answers -- Reference: the TNM staging system, and some others -- The doctor's TURP strategy: what's on his mind while he's "in there"? -- The PSA revolution: how PSA and ultrasound changed the landscape -- You must decide: radiation vs. radical -- Know more about external beam: survival times by stage -- Materials for hot "seeds": and how well they work -- Further hormonal manipulation: not easy to turn off testosterone -- The son of cancer 1: again, your decision may rule -- The great screening debate: are we finding too many victims? -- A look at the future: so, what else is new? |
| Subject |
Prostate -- Cancer -- Popular works.
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Prostatic Neoplasms -- Personal Narratives.
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Patient Participation -- Personal Narratives.
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| Indexed Term |
Men Prostate gland Cancer |
| Added Author |
Nash, Seymour C.
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| ISBN |
0226568571 cloth alkaline paper $19.95 |
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