100 Questions & Answers About Men's Health: Keeping You Happy & Healthy Below the Belt: Keeping You Happy & Healthy Below the Belt

by Pamela Ellsworth

Overview

100 Questions & Answers About Men's Health: Keeping You Happy & Healthy Below the Belt is a comprehensive guide to men's genitourinary health. This essential text provides authoritative, practical answers to the key questions about erectile dysfunction, prostate cancer and benign prostate disease, urinary retention, and treatments for all of these problems. Written by Dr. Pamela Ellsworth, a prominent urologist and best-selling author, this easy to read and invaluable resource is for all men interested in maintaining everything in good working order “down there.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763781811
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	05/04/2010
Series:	100 Questions & Answers about
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Pamela Ellsworth, MD, is a Professor of Urology at University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She is also Chief of the Division of Pediatric Urology at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Ellsworth is the author of many Jones & Bartlett Learning patient guides, including Little Black Book of Urology, 100 Questions & Answers About Erectile Dysfunction, 100 Questions & Answers About Bladder Cancer, and 100 Questions & Answers About Overactive Bladder and Incontinence as well as numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She has lectured throughout the world on a variety of urologic topics.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Prostate Cancer 1

Questions 1-30 explain the basics of prostate cancer, including common warning signs and treatment options:

What is the prostate gland and what does it do?

What are the warning signs of prostate cancer?

What options do I have for treatment of my prostate cancer?

Part 2 Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) 121

Questions 31-63 introduce benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and discuss symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment:

What causes BPH?

When does BPH need to be treated and what are the treatment options?

What is laser treatment and what types are available?

Part 3 Erectile Dysfunction (ED) 165

Questions 64-100 review causes, diagnoses, and different types of therapies for ED:

What is erectile dysfunction and how common is it?

What are the current treatment options available for erectile dysfunction?

Is there a role for sex therapy and counseling in the treatment of erectile dysfunction?

Appendix A 259

Appendix B 267

Glossary 289

Index 313