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Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer: Get the Treatment That is Right for You 2nd Revised edition
Author(s): Gerald Chodak (Author)
- Publisher: Demos Health
- Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2013
- Edition: 2nd Revised edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 450 pages
- ISBN-10: 193630354X
- ISBN-13: 9781936303540
Book Description
Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer, Second Edition provides the most complete, up-to-date, and unbiased look at prostate cancer treatments and therapies for every stage of the disease. A prostate cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and confusing. In Winning the Battle Against Prostate Cancer, Second Edition one of the country’s leading experts Dr. Gerry Chodak, provides detailed information on the advantages and disadvantages of all available treatments, including new tests, therapies and drugs recently approved by the FDA. Incorporating results from the most recent studies, including game-changing findings on the worth of surgery, he shows you how to: decide which treatment is right for you; ask your doctor the right questions; improve your quality of life; and know which sources of information to trust.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
About the Author
Utilising his experience as both a clinician and an educator, Gerald Chodak, MD, is one of the US’s leading experts on prostate cancer. Dr. Chodak has been treating patients with prostate cancer since 1981 and was a full-time faculty member at the University of Chicago for 18 years until forming the Midwest Prostate and Urology Health Center in 1999. During his career Dr. Chodak has co-authored more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters and is the author of Prostate Cancer: Reducing Your Risks.
