Managing prostate cancer
Subtitle: a guide for living better
By: by Andrew J. Roth, MD
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780199336920
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Cancer; Psychological aspects; Physician and patient; Men; Prostate
Description: "No one can forecast the outcome of prostate cancer. Diagnosis, treatment decisions, and treatment complications are fraught with uncertainty and distress. In Managing Prostate Cancer, Dr. Andrew Roth teaches patients with prostate-cancer and their loved ones strategies for how to live better with the questions and challenges that arise with this diagnosis. These tools will also help healthcare givers to provide improved support for their patients and families"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: New diagnosis and early-stage disease. Why me? Why not me? What now? : and why is a psychiatrist writing a book about prostate cancer? ; How can you make the right treatment choice when there is no perfect choice? ; Lifting the weight of waiting and preparing for treatment : deciding between definitive treatment and watchful waiting or active surveillance ; Prostate cancer anxiety, depression, and sleep problems : relax and enter the draft of the emotional judo playbook ; Do I really need a psychiatric medication to cope with prostate cancer? ; Keeping the flames of intimacy alive ; Urinary, bowel, and energy leaks : this wasn't supposed to happen to me ; Not for patients only : spouses or partners can manage prostate cancer better too; title: Later-stage disease and recurrence of disease. Coping with recurrence of cancer if the "definitive" treatment doesn't work : going hormonal ; Grieving for loss of trust, physical wholeness, and sense of immortality : reinvesting in your future as a wise role model.