Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
The most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology available. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men (and their loved ones and caretakers) need to have answered.

The past decade of breakthroughs in clinical research and unprecedented technological advancements has affected few medical conditions more than prostate cancer. Even the most up-to-date advice can vary significantly from one doctor to the next.

Enter Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, the most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men need to have answered. Arm yourself with Redefining Prostate Cancer and the confidence that your decisions are being made with the best possible information as your guide.
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Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
The most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology available. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men (and their loved ones and caretakers) need to have answered.

The past decade of breakthroughs in clinical research and unprecedented technological advancements has affected few medical conditions more than prostate cancer. Even the most up-to-date advice can vary significantly from one doctor to the next.

Enter Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, the most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men need to have answered. Arm yourself with Redefining Prostate Cancer and the confidence that your decisions are being made with the best possible information as your guide.
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Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

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Overview

The most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology available. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men (and their loved ones and caretakers) need to have answered.

The past decade of breakthroughs in clinical research and unprecedented technological advancements has affected few medical conditions more than prostate cancer. Even the most up-to-date advice can vary significantly from one doctor to the next.

Enter Redefining Prostate Cancer: An Innovative Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, the most complete and accurate analysis of prostate cancer treatment, prevention, research, and technology. Internationally renowned prostate cancer experts offer cutting-edge commentary on the questions that all modern men need to have answered. Arm yourself with Redefining Prostate Cancer and the confidence that your decisions are being made with the best possible information as your guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938170324
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Steven Lamm, MD, is a practicing internist and faculty member at New York University School of Medicine. He is well-known as the house doctor on ABC-TV’s The View, regularly offering his analysis and commentary on television and radio programs, including Today, Oprah, Nightline, Dateline, and Fox News. Dr. Lamm has published extensively on a variety of medical topics. His best-selling books include No Guts, No Glory (2012) and The Hardness Factor (2009).

Herbert Lepor, MD, is one of the leading experts in the field of prostate cancer. He is currently the Martin Spatz Chairman of the Department of Urology and the Director of the Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. He was previously appointed Chairman of Urology at NYU School of Medicine at the age of 37, the youngest chairman of a major academic urology department in the country at that time. Dr. Lepor has written more than 300 articles on the topic of prostate cancer in peer-reviewed academic publications.

Dan Sperling, MD, DABR, is the Medical Director at the Sperling Prostate Center, New York, NY. A leading specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate tumors through magnetic resonance imaging and laser ablation procedures, Dr. Sperling is certified by the American Board of Radiology and licensed in New York and New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Chapter 1 Your Prostate: An Owner's Guide 11

Chapter 2 Checking Your Prostate: What's Right for You? 23

Chapter 3 Redefining Prostate Cancer 43

Chapter 4 Making the Diagnosis: Imaging and Biopsy 55

Chapter 5 I Have Prostate Cancer: Now What? 75

Chapter 6 Treatment Choices: Removing the Prostate 87

Chapter 7 Treatment Choices: Radiation Therapy 107

Chapter 8 Treatment Choices: Ablation Therapy 123

Chapter 9 Treatment Choices: Hormone Therapy 137

Chapter 10 Living beyond Cancer: Life after Treatment 147

Appendix A More Prostate Cancer Resources 157

Appendix B Abbreviations 161

Acknowledgments 163

Index 165

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