Prostate cancer: making survival decisions

Author:

Meyer, Sylvan

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date:

1994

Language:

English

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Up in the air to ponder: what could this thing be?

BPH and other nonmalignant problems: maybe its just taht we're getting older

Here comes the finger: doctor's suspicions aroused

When the two-by-four hits you: the symptoms, if any at all

What the exams are like: meet the searching machines

A pigeonhole just for you: what it menas to be graded and staged

Just how sick are you? Understanding the PSA, gleason grades and such

options: they want you to decide! -- The ray gun or the knife: you're the prize in this ongoing debate --

The turrible TURP: what it's like to go through the operation

Patient meets the ray gun: will I glow in the dark?

They can plant "seeds" in you: laying radioactivity directly on the tumor

Cryosurgery: very deep freeze for the cancerous prostate

The radical prostatectomy: get that problem out of there!

Hormonal ablation: blocking your androgens with surgery or drugs

Advanced (C&D) cancers: serious business, but treatable

residual cancers: what if it comes back to me? -- Potency: will I ever get it up again? --

Direct from the doc: the important questions for you to ask your doctor

The time bomb itself: where and waht is the prostate and what does it do?

The track of the sperm: a thirteen-week journey

What causes this cancer? Is it something we eat? Or where we work?

The numbers: can we depend on them? Maybe statistics hide the answers

Reference: the TNM staging system, and some others

The doctor's TURP strategy: what's on his mind while he's

"in there"? -- The PSA revolution: how PSA and ultrasound changed the landscape -- You must decide: radiation vs. radical --

Know more about external beam: survival times by stage

Materials for hot "seeds": and how well they work

Further hormonal manipulation: not easy to turn off testosterone

The son of cancer 1: again, your decision may rule

The great screening debate: are we finding too many victims?

A look at the future: so, what else is new?

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