The Prostate: Facts and Misconceptions/the Most Current Information on Prostate Problems, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options

Salcedo, H.

ISBN 10: 1559721898 / ISBN 13: 9781559721899

Published by Birch Lane Pr, 1993

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The Prostate: Facts and Misconceptions/the Most Current Information on Prostate Problems, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options BY H Salcedo, 1993, HARDCOVER in dustjacket, 1st edition. Diseases of the prostate constitute a major health problem for men. Cancer of the prostate has become the most frequently diagnosed cancer and ranks second behind lung cancer as the leading cause of death. Other prostate diseases such as benign hypertrophy and prostatitis are very common. Yet most men know very little about what the prostate gland does and the problems it can cause. This book meets the great need for sound information in language that readers can easily understand. It explains the various diseases of the prostate and details their symptoms to encourage early diagnosis and cure. It is commonly believed that prostate problems are limited to the aging. It is true that men over forty-five are troubled by prostatic disease that may well worsen, but men in their twenties and thrities are also susceptible to prostatic conditions. And few health problems cause more stress; men fear that prostate troubles will lead to impotence, infertility, and death. And most men therefore hold out against any form of prostatic surgery as long as possible, even though recent medical developments have meant that surgery is not always the sole means to a cure. This book will relieve men and those close to them of much of the anxiety about the prostate and encourage early diagnosis and successful treatment of medical conditions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prostate: Facts and Misconceptions/the Most Current Information on Prostate Problems, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options
• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559721898
• ISBN 13: 9781559721899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medical

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Synopsis

Explains in layperson's terms the various diseases of the prostrate, including benign hypertrophy, prostatitis, and prostatic cancer--the most common cancer in men--and provides information on symptoms of prostatic diseases in order to encourage early diagnosis.

Reviews

Written by a urologist/surgeon, this book seems to emphasize the "get in there and cut" approach. By adopting the "scare" technique that most medical writings aimed at the lay reader seem to use, the book makes one feel that surgery is the only way to go, even though the aftereffects may be worse than the disease. While fairly accurate (though the author does say that a man can not examine his own prostate, a procedure that is actually simple), the book tends to replicate itself in almost each and every chapter. While subtly repudiating radiation and hormone therapy, the author admits that the results are just about the same as they are for surgery. He certainly does not answer all the questions asked by this physician's patients. A far better choice, if a library could afford only one book on the subject, would be Sandra Salmans's Prostate: Questions You Have... Answers You Need ( LJ 10/1/93), which offers far more comprehensive information and less medical jargon.
- Edward R. Pinckney, M.D., Beverly Hills, Cal.
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