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100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Disease

Author(s): Kevin R. Loughlin, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
John Nimmo
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763731427
  • ISBN-10:0763731420
  • Paperback    134 pages      © 2007
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Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, or a friend or relative of someone suffering from benign prostate disease, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers Prostate Disease gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about the disease, including diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment options, sources of support, and much more. Written by an expert on the subject, Dr. Kevin R. Loughlin, with actual patient commentary from John Nimmo, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of prostate disease.

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Concise, easy-to-read paperback book

The question and answer format mimics an actual physician consultation

Provides both the patient's and physician's perspectives

Written by an expert author team with extensive experience

Provides practical answers to questions about treatment options, sources of support, and much more

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ShowTable of Contents

Preface
Part I: The Basics
1. Where is the prostate gland?
2. What does the prostate gland do?
3. What is the anatomy of the prostate gland?
4. What diseases can affect the prostate gland?
Part II: Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA)
5. What is PSA?
6. What is the normal range of PSA?
7. What are age-adjusted PSA ranges?
8. What is PSA density?
9. What is PSA velocity?
10. What is free PSA?
11. What is complexed PSA?
12. What is HK2?
13. What is acid phosphatase?
14. What factors can influence PSA levels?
Part III: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
15. What causes BPH?
16. How common is BPH?
17. What are the symptoms of BPH?
18. How is BPH diagnosed?
19. What is a uroflow measurement?
20. What is a bladder ultrasound?
21. What is a cystoscopy?
22. What is a urodynamics test?
23. What is the relationship between BPH and PSA?
24. What other disorders can mimic BPH?
25. What damage can BPH cause?
26. Does nutrition have any impact on BPH?
Part IV: Medical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
27. When does BPH need to be treated?
28. What are alpha receptors, and how do they influence BPH symptoms?
29. How are alpha blockers used to treat BPH symptoms?
30. What alpha-blocker drugs are available for BPH symptoms?
31. What are the side effects of alpha-blocker drugs?
32. What are the results of BPH treatment using alpha-blocker drugs?
33. What is DHT?
34. What types of 5 alpha reductase inhibitors are available?
35. What are the side effects of 5 alpha reductase inhibitors?
36. What are the results of BPH treatment using 5 alpha reductase inhibitor drugs?
37. What effects do 5 alpha reductase inhibitor drugs have on PSA levels?
38. Can alpha blocker drugs and 5 alpha reductase drugs be used together?
39. What is the effect of 5 alpha reductase drugs on prostate cancer?
40. What is the role of herbal therapy in BPH treatment?
41. Can saw palmetto be used to treat BPH?
Part V: Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostate Hypertrophy
42. What is an open prostatectomy?
43. What is a transurethral prostatectomy?
44. What is a transurethral incision of the prostate?
45. What is electrovaporization of the prostate?
46. What are the side effects of surgical treatment of BPH?
47. What are the results of surgical treatment of BPH?
Part VI: Minimally Invasive Surgery of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
48. What is minimally invasive surgical treatment of BPH?
49. What is laser therapy of the prostate?
50. What types of laser therapy are available?
51. What are the results of laser therapy?
52. What is microwave therapy of the prostate?
53. What are the results of microwave therapy?
54. What is radiofrequency therapy of the prostate?
55. What are the results of radiofrequency therapy?
56. What are prostatic stents?
57. What are the results of prostate stents?
58. What is balloon dilation of the prostate?
59. What are the results of balloon dilation of the prostate?
60. What other minimally invasive surgical treatments of the prostate are available?
61. What is the role of a permanent indwelling urethral catheter in the treatment of BPH?
62. What is the role of a clean intermittent catheterization in the treatment of BPH?
63. What is the role of urecholine in the treatment of BPH?
Part VII: Prostatitis
64. What is prostatitis?
65. What types of prostatitis are there?
66. What is prostadynia?
67. How is prostatitis diagnosed?
68. How is prostatitis treated?
69. How is prostadynia diagnosed?
70. How is prostadynia treated?
Part VIII: Prostate Cancer Overview
71. Who gets prostate cancer?
72. How is prostate cancer diagnosed?
73. What is prostate ultrasound and biopsy?
74. What are Gleason grades and scores?
75. Is prostate cancer genetic?
76. How is prostate cancer staged?
77. Does nutrition influence prostate cancer?
Part IX: Prostate Cancer Treatment for Localized Disease
78. What is observation only?
79. Who is a candidate for observation only?
80. What are the results of observation only?
81. What is a radical prostatectomy?
82. What types of radical prostatectomy are available?
83. What are the potential side effects of a radical prostatectomy?
84. What are the results of radical prostatectomy?
85. What is external beam radiation therapy?
86. What is conformational radiation therapy?
87. What are the side effects of external beam radiation?
88. What are the results of external beam radiation?
89. What is brachytherapy?
90. What are the side effects of brachytherapy?
91. What are the results of brachytherapy?
92. What is cryotherapy?
93. What are the side effects of cryosurgery?
94. What are the results of cryosurgery of the prostate?
Part X: Prostate Cancer Treatment for Metastatic Disease
95. How is metastatic disease diagnosed?
96. What is an orchiectomy?
97. What are GnRH agonists?
98. What are antiandrogens?
99. What is combination therapy?
100. What other therapy is available for metastatic disease?
Appendix A: Supplements and the Prostate
Appendix B: Support Groups
Glossary
Index
Supplement on Nutrition
Appendix


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Kevin R. Loughlin, MD-Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin R. Loughlin, MD received his AB from Princeton University and his MD from New York Medical College. He also holds an MBA from Boston University and has received an MA (Hon) from Harvard University. He is a professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and is on the surgical staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has written and lectured extensively on prostate disease throughout his career.

John Nimmo

John Nimmo started his work life in publishing, first as a copywriter for a New York City trade magazine publisher, then with Harvard Business Review, and later with Reader’s Digest. He went on to consult for the Harvard Medical School Health Letter before founding Health News Digest in 1988, a health newsletter for customers of independent insurance agents. In 1995, with a son who publishes Physicians MarketPlace, and with a frequent medical commentator on television (Dr. Keith Ablow), he formed Medical Education Resources to work with the National Institutes of Health in developing sponsors to bring the results of the Institutes’ research before the public. Last year, he arranged to work with the FDA to help disseminate particulars of adverse drug reactions.

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