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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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