Conquer Prostate Cancer: How Medicine, Faith, Love and Sex Can Renew Your Life - Softcover

Weinsberg, Rabbi Edgar J.; Weinsberg, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982012101 ISBN 13: 9780982012109

Publisher: NACSCORP, INC, 2008

Synopsis

This inspiring physical, emotional, and spiritual guide empowers patients to face diagnosis with dignity, explore their options realistically, and tackle recovery with optimism and determination.

The first book to emphasize robotic surgery for prostate cancer from an informed layman's perspective, CONQUER PROSTATE CANCER discusses the latest research and advances in treatment, and profiles twenty patients who chose various treatment options.

As the author and his wife share the most intimate details of their prostate cancer journey, readers learn how to:

-- Become an active member of their medical team
-- Reduce pain and stress and renew vitality
-- Overcome impotence and incontinence
-- Enhance intimate relationships
-- Draw strength from faith, family, and friends

Prominent robotic surgeon Dr. Robert Carey discusses medical and patient-care concerns and the author's wife provides a running commentary, sharing her thoughts about how she and her family coped with the disease and its effects.

With its low-key humor, hopeful tone, and well-researched facts, this book is a powerful tool for surviving prostate cancer, and a valuable resource for prostate cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones, The author, Rabbi Ed Weinsberg, is a prostate cancer survivor and rabbi with a doctorate in gerontology from Columbia University. Contributing author Dr. Robert Carey is a prominent urologist and robotic surgeon with a Ph.D. from MIT. Dr. David Kauder, the book's medical advisor, has been a urologist for the past 30 years and is a past president of the Massachusetts Association of Practicing Urologists.

"Rabbi Weinsberg draws on his own medical ordeal to bring guidance and comfort to others," says Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People."

Dr. Ellen Kreidman, psychologist and relationship expert appearing on Oprah and other national media calls the book "brilliant, inspiring, and gutsy," and says that it will enable its readers to "experience the joys of sex again."

"Successfully wrestles with the concerns of those confronted by prostate cancer," declares Dr. Robert Butler, M.D., President and CEO of the International Longevity Center and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Jerry Perisho, prostate cancer survivor, former freelance comedy writer for Jay Leno, David Letterman marveled how this book is "crammed full of laughter, stories, remarkable frankness, and great advice."

Leah Cohen, a prostate cancer survivor's wife and blog editor states, "I applaud the author for recognizing that wives, in their own way, get prostate cancer too."

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"A great resource for both patients and healthcare providers alike . . . a rallying cry for everyone who has been touched directly or indirectly by prostate cancer."

From the Publisher

PRAISE FOR CONQUER PROSTATE CANCER

"Understanding that sickness does not have to end intimacy is vital for every marriage. Rabbi Weinsberg helps readers resolve this important issue to create a lifetime of love and fulfillment." -- John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"Experience the joys of sex again . . . brilliant, inspiring, and gutsy." -- Dr. Ellen Kreidman, psychologist, and expert in relationship and marriage on national media

"Helped me overcome the pain and stress of my prostate cancer surgery." -- Rev. Dr. Richard Byrne, prostate cancer survivor and Director of Pastoral Ministries, Brooksby/Erickson Village

"I applaud the author for recognizing that wives, in their own way, get prostate cancer too." -- Leah Cohen, wife of a prostate cancer survivor and editor of the Living with Prostate Cancer Blog

"A great resource for both patients and healthcare providers alike . . . a rallying cry for everyone who has been touched directly or indirectly by prostate cancer." -- Dr. Vipul Patel, M.D., Director of Urological Oncology, Florida Hospital Cancer Institute

"Crammed full of laughter, stories, remarkable frankness and great advice . . . provides invaluable assistance to every man and woman facing prostate cancer or any adversity. " -- Jerry Perisho, prostate cancer survivor, motivational speaker, and author of I Barf, Therefore I Am: A Sensitive Comedy Writer's Relationship with Cancer

"A real knack for telling a true story that is at once serious but upbeat." -- Rabbi Dov Peretz. Elkins, editor of Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul , with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

"Offers a host of `stressbusters' to help recover from serious illnesses like prostate cancer with relative ease." -- Edward Hallowell, M.D., ADHD pioneer and psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Author of such books as Driven to Distraction and Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely, and frequent guest in national media

"A real help for those having prostate cancer surgery." -- Peggy Huddleston, author, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques

"The author applies his gentle wit . . . to ease the distress of others beset with prostate cancer." -- Stanley Smisskiss, Founding Chairman, American Cancer Society Foundation

"Rabbi Weinsberg draws on his own medical ordeal to bring guidance and comfort to others." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"Successfully wrestles with the concerns of those confronted by prostate cancer." -- Dr. Robert Butler, CEO, International Longevity Center and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Why Survive? Being Old in America

About this edition

• Publisher: NACSCORP, INC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0982012101
• ISBN 13: 9780982012109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321