Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer - Softcover

Walsh, Patrick C.; Worthington, Janet Farrar

 
9780446679145: Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0446679143 ISBN 13: 9780446679145
Verlag: Grand Central Publishing, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Major medical breakthroughs are enabling more and more men to survive prostate cancer. Once a deraded killer, the disease can today be managed with a wide range of powerful new strategies. Now this lifesaving guide by Dr. Patrick Walsh and award-winning science writer Janet Farrar Worthington offers a message of hope to all those facing this illness. Learn:



  • The risk factors of prostate cancer, including heredity, diet, and envrionment
  • Why a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, grains, and less red meat may help prevent or delay prostate cancer
  • Why the digital rectal exam and PSA test might save your life
  • The latest treatment options--from Dr. Walsh's "nerve-sparing" radical prostatectomy to new radiation techniques and promising drugs for advanced prostate cancer
  • Effective methods for recovering continence and potency after treatment.

"The ultimate book on the No. 1 men's disease in the world...should be in every man's home."--USA Today

"All men--and their loved ones--battling or concerned about prostate cancer should read this book."--Publisher's Weekly

"Comforting, encouraging...a must-read for women, men, and families...tells you everything you need to know." --Elizabeth Dole

"Dr. Walsh is widely regarded as the nation's finest prostate cancer surgeon... Very current...thoroughgoing primer on the disease, full of accessible but detailed explanations."--Washington Post

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

PATRICK C. WALSH, M.D., the world's foremost authority on prostate cancer, is the professor of urology and director of the Brady of Urological INstitue at the Johns Hopikns Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland.


JANET FARRAR WORTHINGTON is an award-winning science writer and the former editor of the nationally acclaimed Hopkins Medical News.

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Verlag
Grand Central Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0446679143
ISBN 13 
9780446679145
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
480
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Grand Central Publishing
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