Chapters

Preface

     1. The Big Lie

     2. Ron's Story

     3. Prominent Men with Prostate Cancer

     4. What is Prostate Cancer?

     5. Prostate Cancer Symptoms

     6. What Causes Prostate Cancer?

     7. Prostatitis and Prostate Cancer

     8. Staging Prostate Cancer

     9. Gleason Grades and Scores

   10. Your Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Level

   11. The PSA Screening Debate

   12. Moe and Larry's Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

   13. Watchful Waiting for Localized Prostate Cancer

   14. Active Non-Invasive Therapy (ANIT)

   15. PC SPES

   16. Estrogen

   17. Cryoablation of the Prostate

   18. Hormone Blockade for prostate cancer

  19. Hormone Blockade Details

  20. Intermittent Hormone Blockade and Bud Irish

  21. Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

  22. 3-D Radiation for Prostate Cancer

  23. Radiation Seed Implants (Brachytherapy)

  24. The Radical Prostatectomy

  25. The Radical Prostatectomy and Your Penis

  26. Impotence After the Radical Prostatectomy

  27. Sexual Function Inventory

  28. The Radical Prostatectomy and Incontinence

  29. The Radical Prostatectomy and Quality of Life

  30. Does the Radical Prostatectomy Work?

  31. The Wrong Reasons for Surgery

  32. Six Ways the Radical Prostatectomy May Spread Prostate Cancer

  33. What I Would Do

  34. Patient Power

Recommended Web Sites

Acknowledgements

About the Artists

About the Author

How to Order More Books

Figure Index

Index