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This is a gripping book that starkly conveys his emotions upon learning of prostate cancer as well as his experiences deciding treatment and the process. I could not put it down, but can understand how others find it a disturbing read ahead of dealing with this problem.
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My husband has just been told he has prostate cancer. While browsing the local library last week, we saw this book and checked it out. I suggest to every wife and husband to sit down and read this book together, there is so much information that will help both of you. As we have just returned from seeing Dr. Russo at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, I can testify that all is exactly as Michael Korda tells in his...
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Anyone facing this form of cancer will benefit from reading "Man to Man" I found the book entertaining and informative. It helped me face possibilities I was afraid to think about. I laughed and felt the pain of the experience personally! I feel fortunate that morphine was used to kill my pain after the operation. I have meet several people who for one reason or another were not given morphine. All of those people...
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I received a copy of this book from a relative that knew I recently had a Radical Prostatectomy. I read the book, cover to cover, in 24 hours. Korda's book tells it like it is - the fears, the tears and the hope one finds on the way to recovery from prostate cancer. It should be read by all men over 40 and their significant others. The battle is not glossed over; it is one man's story of the struggle, and he details the...
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