Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer: Get The Treatment That's Right For You - Softcover

"The structure and content of this book is superb, and it will be an excellent resource for prostate cancer patients. The author skillfully provides the actual results of significant prostate cancer research in a format that will be understandable to educated lay persons."--Doody's Reviews "This book should be read by every man concerned about prostate cancer screening, prevention, and treatment."--"Otis W. Brawley, MD, Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society" "The majority of books on prostate cancer -- for the newly diagnosed and for the patient with progressive disease -- come with a particular point of view about one form of treatment or another ... even when they do carefully mention all of the options. It is one of the reasons why The "New" Prostate Cancer InfoLink tends to "pass" on the opportunity to review and comment on most new books. Dr. Gerry Chodak, however, is a little unusual. Yes, he is a urologist by training, and yes he does, therefore, still tend to think like a surgeon, but ...He was an advocate for the "non-treatment" of carefully selected patients through active monitoring as long ago as the late 1980s. It was in his office that the formative idea for the first prostate cancer support organization -- now Us TOO International -- was brought to life, back in 1990. He has always been a wonderful communicator -- whether lecturing to his peers or talking to individual patients and their partners. Last year he decided to put together his own book on prostate cancer -- a book that did not present one point of view, but sought to give unbiased insight into all of the options that patients themselves consider, and written in such a way that the pros and cons of all of those options are clearly and simply laid out. "Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer" is a book that we shall be using as a "baseline" during the next year or so. We shall ask ourselves regularly whether new data actually take us beyond whatn

"Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men with almost 200,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. Today increasing numbers of men and their families play a more active role in their treatment and the results can be seen in the increase of men who survive prostate cancer. Yet each year over 27,000 men die from prostate cancer. This makes prostate cancer the second leading cause of cancer death in men behind lung cancer. The range of controversial therapies and treatments for prostate cancer is greater than that of any other cancer affecting men. This makes it difficult for men and their families to determine what are the best options available. Rarely do doctors agree on which treatment a patient should receive or when they should receive it. And many of the current books on prostate cancer suffer from considerable bias promoting one treatment over another without good scientific evidence. Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer resolves the problem of contradictory and incomplete information. The book is an unbiased and up-to-date look at prostate cancer treatments and therapies. Dr. Chodak lays out the pros and cons of all reasonable treatment options including the chances that a man may have a good result or develop side effects or complications. Equally important Dr. Chodak recognizes that men and their families need more than just the facts. They are concerned not only with their survival but also what life will be like after treatment. Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer offers empathetic insight into the impact of the disease on day-to-day activities so that patients and family members have a clear understanding of what lies ahead and what options are available should complications arise. The book does not gloss over the controversies but presents them in a clear, concise, easy-to-understand manner."