Prostate Cancer: A Patient's Guide

✍ Scribed by René Sotelo, Juan Arriaga, Raed A. Azhar, Inderbir S. Gill (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding prostate diseases without the proper and reliable guidance can be overwhelming because the internet, television and print media saturate us with information ranging from scientific studies across the world to inspiring stories from cancer survivors to many myths and rumors. How do we interpret all that information? This book intends to help patients and their families to know and understand their diagnosis. Once this has been established, the reader can confidently determine the best choice of treatment, resting assured that the guidance in this book adheres to current international medical standards and has been influenced by the authors' many years of professional experiences. The editors aim to transmit, in a simple and precise manner, only relevant and necessary information to help patients and families that have been diagnosed with prostate diseases.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
An Appointment with the Urologist....Pages 7-17
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA)....Pages 19-27
Prostate Biopsy....Pages 29-40
Prostatitis—Pelvic Pain....Pages 41-48
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia....Pages 49-72
Prostate Cancer....Pages 73-165
How to Get a Second Opinion....Pages 167-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-180

✦ Subjects

Urology/Andrology; Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention