topic:"Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy" found 6 records

How do you deal with a terminal diagnosis in your forties? How are you supposed to talk about it with friends and family? "Finger up the bum" tells of Michael Izen's experience with prostate cancer with in-your-face humor and original, off-the-wall illustrations about everything from his 'fallen wa…

Author: Izen, Michael Hart

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher: Leola Productions

Publication Date: 2016

Physical Description: 79 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Prostatic Neoplasms; Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis; Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy; Men's Health; Humor; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

Abstract: How do you deal with a terminal diagnosis in your forties? How are you supposed to talk about it with friends and family? "Finger up the bum" tells of Michael Izen's experience with prostate cancer with in-your-face humor and original, off-the-wall illustrations about everything from his 'fallen warrior' to hot flashes, as well as touching thoughts on what really matters in the end - Cover

ISBN: 9780995278707

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WJ752 I98 2016

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Invasion of the prostate snatchers : no more unnecessary biopsies, radical treatment or loss of sexual potency

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Blum, Ralph H, Scholz, Mark. New York, NY: Other Press , 2010.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WJ752 B658i 2010

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Welcome to prostate country; All the decision makers are surgeons!; The quest for the enchanted shotgun; Commuting the death sentence; Band of brothers; Introducing active surveillance; Life in the libido-free zone; To biopsy or not to biopsy : opening Pandora's box; The return of the prodigal hard…

Author: Blum, Ralph H; Scholz, Mark

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Other Press

Publication Date: 2010

Physical Description: 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy; Early Detection of Cancer; Erectile Dysfunction - prevention & control; Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis; Unnecessary Procedures - adverse effects; Personal Narratives

Abstract: Welcome to prostate country; All the decision makers are surgeons!; The quest for the enchanted shotgun; Commuting the death sentence; Band of brothers; Introducing active surveillance; Life in the libido-free zone; To biopsy or not to biopsy : opening Pandora's box; The return of the prodigal hard-on; TIP : testosterone inactivating pharmaceuticals; Invitation to the "Ice ball"; A new look at radiation; Nikola Tesla?s magical mystery machine; Quality imaging : a doorway to less toxic treatment; Now playing for a limited time only : the Combidex Follies; Deciding treatment; Anatomy of assisted suicide; The insulin connection; Hexing : the modern sorcerer?s curse; Diet and supplements : an overview; Romancing the immune system; How prostate cancer can make you live longer : getting to the doctor?s office; By way of summing up; Genuine hope for men with relapsed disease.

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ISBN: 9781590513422; 1590513428

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Surrey Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WJ752 B658i 2010

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Management of prostate cancer

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Jones, J. Stephen. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press , 2013. 3rd ed.

Audience: Professional

The thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Management of Prostate Cancer provides concise and authoritative guidance to today's best therapeutic regimens for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Highlighting the latest major advances in the field, the book includes chapters on t…

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Author: Jones, J. Stephen

Editor: Klein, Eric A

Edition: 3rd ed.

Place of Publication: Totowa, NJ

Publisher: Humana Press

Publication Date: 2013

Series: R2 Library

Subjects: Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy; Prostatectomy; Gene Therapy; Radiotherapy

Abstract: The thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Management of Prostate Cancer provides concise and authoritative guidance to today's best therapeutic regimens for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Highlighting the latest major advances in the field, the book includes chapters on the most controversial areas of prostate cancer - screening, chemoprevention, and active surveillance; updated chapters on genetic risk and progression, biopsy schemes, treatment of complications, and comparative treatment outcomes for surgery; and new chapters on risk factors, new markers, nomograms, and focal therapy. This volume also features overviews of new and emerging drugs and treatment paradigms for castrate resistant disease, advances that promise to extend life and perhaps even cure a subset of men with metastatic disease.; Epidemiology and Risk Factors; Twenty Years and Counting: Is PSA Still Useful in 2010?; Prostate Cancer Screening: A Review of the Evidence with Clinical Practice Implications; Beyond PSA: Promising New Markers for Prostate Cancer; Hereditary Prostate Cancer and Genetic Risk; Prostate Inflammation and Prostate Cancer; Molecular Progression of Prostate Cancer: Androgens and Estrogens; The Role of Obesity and Diet in Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Risk Reduction by Chemoprevention; Current Issues in Pathologic Evaluation; Optimum Prostate Biopsy: Techniques and Strategies; The Utility of Nomograms in Routine Clinical Practice; Active Surveillance Comes of Age; Focal Therapy: Prostate Hemiablation as the First Historical Treatment Model for Focal Therapy of Early Stage Prostate Cancer; Contemporary External Beam Radiotherapy; Surgery, Brachytherapy, or External Beam Radiation for Low- and Intermediate-Risk Disease?; The Role for Radical Prostatectomy in Advanced Prostate Cancer; Radiation Therapy in the Management of Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer; Clinical Implications of Measuring Quality-of-Life in Early Stage Prostate Cancer; Treatment Modalities of Post- prostatectomy Incontinence: A Historical Perspective as Well as Current Therapy Options; Management of Biochemical Recurrence After Localized Treatment for Prostate Cancer; Management of Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Disease ;; Pitfalls of Androgen Deprivation Therapy; Current Management of Castration- Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC); Beta-Emitting Radiopharmaceuticals and Bone Metastasis

ISBN: 9781607612582

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Professional

Location: Internet

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