A Primer on Prostate Cancer. The Empowered Patient's Guide

The Primer on Prostate Cancer ("The Primer") reflects the combined efforts of a team composed of a medical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer (PC) and the significant other of a man with prostate cancer. The Primer was the best selling print book on PC for many years and has gone through two editions with sales of over 40,000 copies. Although this second edition was published in 2002, there are only minor areas in the Primer that are out date and relate to new drugs that were only made available in the last year. The Primer s published in full color. It is 368 pages of key information that should benefit every patient and/or physician dealing with prostate cancer. The Table of Contents include: Overview How to Proceed Basics of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Staging Treatment Options Appendices: Resources; If You Want to Know More; Partin 2001 Tables; Glossary and TNM; References; Useful Forms; Clinical stages illustrated; Lists of Figures, Tables, Physician's Notes, Forms. Index There are 139 graphics which include 72 figures, 30 tables, 18 physician's notes and 19 forms. The senior author is a board-certified medical oncologist specializing in PC since 1983, and an elected member of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) and AUA (American Urological Association) and formerly of ASTRO (American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology). He is well published in the peer-reviewed literature, the first medical director of the PCRI (Prostate Cancer Research Institute) in Los Angeles and a moderator and speaker at many international meetings on PC.