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Bladder Cancer: Current Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Urology)

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After nearly a year of visiting my doctor and urologist, I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. I'm the type of person who reads everything, so I bought this book, which is a medical text. IT WAS WELL WORTH THE PRICE. After reading it -- I could understand almost all of it but the most technical parts -- I was able to have a frank, technical discussion with my urologist and actually influence the treatment decisions he was making for me. I am undergoing a biopsy tomorrow to determine the exact source of the cancer. (All of the uniary system is lined with the same type of cells called transitional cells, so if they can't see the source of the cancer with a cystoscope they don't know exactly where it is emanating from.) Most bladder cancer is quite managable, but it is the fourth leading cancer and nothing to fool around with. This book will give you a solid background and help you understand the subtlties of the disease and the diagnostic tests, as well as management of your recovery. It's only shortcoming is that it was published in 2001 and some diagnostic advances have been made. This book however, had all the information I needed to make sure my diagnosis and treatment began to move very quickly. As an aside, they began looking at me because my PSA test was high, but even after a prostate biopsy and a couple of prostate ultrasounds they could find nothing wrong with my prostate. I'm not an MD, but the uniary system and the prostate share the same local and I would not be at all surprised if my uniary system isw 'exciting' my prostate (no pun intended).