Prostate Cancer: A Non-Surgical Perspective, Third Edition

by Kent Wallner and Kent Waller

Book Overview

This book is a patient's guide for coping with prostate cancer. It provides state-of-the-art information to help the patient through each step of diagrnosis, treatment and recovery. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964899159
• ISBN13: 9780964899155
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: SmartMedicine Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Wallner's book

This is by far the best book on prostate cancer for patients, along with Kent Wallner's book for physician's "Prostate Brachytherapy Made Complicated". Kent has an amazing way of presenting very complicated, scientific material in a straight forward, easy to understand way. I personaly give all my patients a copy of Kent's book to help them understand their disease process, and treatment options.

A Helpful Book With Some Weaknesses

It is important to realize that the author is a radiation oncologist who is writing with a biased point of view. He does manage, however, to give the reader a fairly balanced overview in spite of his background and training.Wallner makes an attempt to write a thorough review of the subject in a readable style. The weakest part of the book is the coverage given to the side effects of radiation treatment. Wallner clearly understates this important consequence. Another shortfall is that not enough space is given to a comparison of the disease-free suvival statistics between surgery and radiation. Anyone considering treatment needs to know the disease-free survival records of patients with different stages of disease under all of the major treatment options.

Excellent Book on Prostate Cancer Alternative Treatments

I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in January of 1999. After the shock, I started doing research on the web to educate myself. I also went to our public library and read or scanned every book on the shelf about Prostate Cancer. This book is without doubt the best of all the books on the options for treatment for Prostate Cancer that I read. Clear and concise, written for the lay person with just enough technical jargon so that you can discuss PCa with a physician. The book explains PSA results, Gleason Scores and the Partin Tables that every man needs to know about to make an intelligent choice for treatment. Don't let the comment about large print influence you one way or the other, it doesn't matter. If you want information, this is the book to read. I read it all in one long evening. 5 STARS!