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cover of book Mayo Clinic on Prostate Health
Mayo Clinic on Prostate Health


Table of Contents

Preface

PART 1: Prostate Primer

Chapter 1: About the Prostate
        A healthy prostate
        When things go wrong
        Symptoms that may signal a problem
        Are you at risk?
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 2: Getting a Prostate Checkup
        Basic diagnostic tests
        More on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
        The great debate
        In search of a better screening tool
        Answers to your questions

PART 2: Noncancerous Conditions

Chapter 3: Living with Prostatitis
        What kind do you have?
        Designing a treatment plan
        When it's really not prostatitis
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 4: Understanding Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
        A common fact of life
        Seeing a doctor
        Getting a diagnosis
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 5: Treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

        Watchful waiting
        Medication
        Surgery
        Heat therapy (thermotherapy)
        Nonsurgical procedures
        Weighing your options
        Answers to your questions

PART 3: Prostate Cancer

Chapter 6: Learning You Have Cancer
        Symptoms that may signal cancer
        How prostate cancer is diagnosed
        Grading the cancer
        Has the cancer spread?
        Staging the cancer
        Survival statistics
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 7: What Are Your Options?
        Letting the cancer alone
        Removing your prostate gland
        Destroying the cancer with radiation
        Freezing cancer cells (cryotherapy)
        Answers to your questions
        [10 questions to ask your doctor]

Chapter 8: When the Cancer Is Advanced
        Controlling the cancer with hormones
        Choosing testicular surgery
        Using chemotherapy
        Trying an experimental procedure
        Strategies for relieving pain
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 9: Coping with Complications
        Learning to control incontinence
        Getting help for impotence
        Dealing with bowel disorders
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 10: Getting On with Life
        Preparing for follow-up visits
        Overcoming cancer's emotional toll
        Regaining your strength
        Eating better to feel better
        Going back to work
        Communicating with family and friends
        Joining a support group
        Answers to your questions

PART 4: Prostate Health

Chapter 11: Can You Prevent Prostate Disease?
        Eat more of these potential cancer fighters
        Forgo the fat
        Go for the grains, fruits and vegetables
        Get and stay active
        See your doctor regularly
        Answers to your questions

Chapter 12: What About Complementary and Alternative Therapies?

        Dietary and herbal supplements
        Mind and body therapies
        Traditional Chinese medicine
        Other healing routes
        How to approach nontraditional therapies
        The choice is yours

Additional Resources
Index

 
 

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