Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients
When a patient is told that his prostate cancer has progressed to a new stage, he has both questions and concerns. Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition, is written specifically to answer questions for patients whose prostate cancer is considered “hormone-refractory,” meaning that it no longer responds well to hormone therapy. The book provides a wealth of valuable resources for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals alike.

• Comprehensive information on the many treatment options currently available
• The latest updates on an exciting number of therapies undergoing testing now
• Suggestions to patients to lessen or eliminate treatment side effects
• “Question-and-Answer” format gives direct responses to patient queries
• Health and wellness tips included throughout the book

Arm yourself with a wealth of new information to discuss with your healthcare provider!
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Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients
When a patient is told that his prostate cancer has progressed to a new stage, he has both questions and concerns. Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition, is written specifically to answer questions for patients whose prostate cancer is considered “hormone-refractory,” meaning that it no longer responds well to hormone therapy. The book provides a wealth of valuable resources for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals alike.

• Comprehensive information on the many treatment options currently available
• The latest updates on an exciting number of therapies undergoing testing now
• Suggestions to patients to lessen or eliminate treatment side effects
• “Question-and-Answer” format gives direct responses to patient queries
• Health and wellness tips included throughout the book

Arm yourself with a wealth of new information to discuss with your healthcare provider!
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Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients

Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients

by Mark A. Moyad
Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients

Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition: Options for Prostate Cancer Patients

by Mark A. Moyad

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Overview

When a patient is told that his prostate cancer has progressed to a new stage, he has both questions and concerns. Promoting Wellness Beyond Hormone Therapy, Second Edition, is written specifically to answer questions for patients whose prostate cancer is considered “hormone-refractory,” meaning that it no longer responds well to hormone therapy. The book provides a wealth of valuable resources for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals alike.

• Comprehensive information on the many treatment options currently available
• The latest updates on an exciting number of therapies undergoing testing now
• Suggestions to patients to lessen or eliminate treatment side effects
• “Question-and-Answer” format gives direct responses to patient queries
• Health and wellness tips included throughout the book

Arm yourself with a wealth of new information to discuss with your healthcare provider!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938170393
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
Publication date: 09/24/2013
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, is the primary author of over a hundred medical articles and numerous books. In addition to his writings, he has maintained a consulting practice on complementary medicine for the past fifteen years at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Department of Urology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Let Knowledge Empower You 4

A Quick and Necessary Review

Chapter 1 Questions and Answers to Start 9

Chapter 2 Three Minimal Treatment Options 35

Chapter 3 Secondary Hormonal Treatments 41

FDA-Approved Therapies for HRPC

Chapter 4 Xgeva, Zometa, and Other Bone-Protecting Drug 55

Chapter 5 Provenge 67

Chapter 6 Zytiga 79

Chapter 7 Xtandi 85

Chapter 8 Taxotere and Jevtana 91

Chapter 9 Alpharadin 103

Other Considerations

Chapter 10 Exciting Treatments in the Immediate Pipeline 111

Chapter 11 Preventing and Lessening Side Effects 121

Chapter 12 Diet, Supplements, and Alternative Medicine 255

Index 279

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