A Warrior’s Guide to Defeating Prostate Cancer
The importance of prevention and early diagnosis of prostate cancer is critical to combating this disease that strikes over 180,000 men every year.
For the warriors in this battle who have been newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, and for their families and loved ones, A Primer on Prostate Cancer: The Empowered Patient’s Guide, serves as a guidebook to the successful management of this epidemic disease.
The Primer’s primary purpose is to utilize the clinical experience of a medical oncologist who has specialized in prostate cancer to address the issues and realities encountered by men and women touched by prostate cancer. Many of the suggestions for topics in the Primer came from men who have experienced prostate cancer and from their partners. Written by Dr. Stephen B. Strum, a board certified medical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer and co-founder of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute, and Donna Pogliano, partner of a warrior in the battle against prostate cancer and award-winning prostate cancer activist, this book is a comprehensive guide on the basics of prostate cancer, diagnosis and testing procedures, and the numerous treatment options.
Also included:
~ Full color illustrations and photos
~ Notes sections for readers
~ Case studies
~ Chapter summaries
~ List of additional resources
Within the 368 pages of this full-color in-depth book on prostate cancer, newly diagnosed men have access to the vital information that those who have experienced prostate cancer consider indispensable. Armed with this education, the prostate cancer patient has the ammunition to become empowered and involved in intelligently managing his own care.
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The Primer is enriched with case studies in the format of Physician’s Notes to emphasize key concepts. Space is provided throughout the text for the reader to jot down notes. It is printed in full color and includes 139 graphics. This alone sets it apart from many other health books. Fully indexed and referenced, with a resource list, a glossary of terms and several other useful appendices, it is a valuable reference book for patients and their doctors.
A diagnosis of prostate cancer can be frightening and confusing to the newly diagnosed man and to his loved ones.
A Primer on Prostate Cancer, The Empowered Patient’s Guide, which I co-authored with Donna Pogliano, was written to replace fear and confusion with the empowerment of education.
The book constructs a strong foundation of knowledge about the disease and its consequences. Beginning with elementary discussions of the impact of the disease, the role of loved ones, the importance of understanding the nature of prostate cancer and the importance of the medical record, it builds on this foundation with a discussion of information gathering and the basics of prostate cancer. With this foundation established, information on diagnosis and testing is presented, as well as an extensive chapter on treatment options.
A Primer on Prostate Cancer provides the reader with a strategy for successful disease management drawn from decades of experience in treating and counseling patients. Co-author Donna Pogliano, partner of a prostate cancer warrior, contributes the patient’s perspective throughout the book. The reader thus has the benefit of the expertise of the physician within the context of the insights of the patient.
The patient who is empowered through understanding has the best chance for a successful outcome. Using the Primer as the basis of a solid education in the complex world of prostate cancer, the patient can maximize the potential for understanding prostate cancer and for becoming successfully involved in managing his own care.
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