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The Guide to Living with Bladder Cancer (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

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Bladder cancer is a very common form of cancer. It is a messy disease and painful. Despite its frequent occurrence, there is little public discussion of its symptoms or treatments. So until I became a bladder cancer patient, I knew essentially nothing about this disease.

But bladder cancer patients need good information fast. There are critical treatment decisions to be made right after the initial diagnosis, and the choices one makes will affect one's future quality of life to a major degree. Discussions with one's urologist are helpful, but there is much to learn if one wishes to make informed decisions.

Mark Schoenberg's book provides the essential facts to help bladder cancer patients make those critical decisions. I know: it helped me.

This is the only book about bladder cancer that I found for the general public. It's very informative and well written with a general optimistic tone. It was very helpful to understand the diagnosis and treatment options.

Schoenberg writes to the bladder cancer patient. He reviews the various forms of bladder cancer and the treatments for them. This is a scary subject and he is knowledgeable, accurate, and reassuring.

People are surviving bladder cancer today, and the information in this book can save your life. Your urologist or oncologist will not explain bladder cancer as thoroughly as this book does.

Missing from the book are references to bladder cancer internet sites such as the bladder cancer web cafe or the bladder cancer mailing list. This guarantees the book will go out of date quickly, which is unfortunate.

More information about dealing with your doctors and various institutions involved in your care also would have been helpful, although these subjects are covered in other books.

Published in 2000, this is an excellent book for one to begin to get information on bladder cancer. However, we find it is becoming quite outdated. For example, chemotherapy drugs have progressed beyond those referenced in the text and CT equipment is now newer than that which appears to have been standard when the book was written. The authors could do a tremendous service by updating this book, and in so doing, provide a great service to many people with this disease.

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the least discussed: Dr. Mark Schoenberg's Guide To Living With Bladder Cancer tells what is needed to know about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Chapters move from the basic initial signs of such cancer to treatment options and bladder preservation therapy. A quite comprehensive portrait evolves.

Dr. Schoenberg writes not only to the patient but to the caregiver(s). His optimistic and reassuring approach is straight forward, no beating around the bush. The reader obtains a thoroughly well rounded education through Dr.Schoenbergs' discussion of anatomy, analogies, drawings, treatments, and outcomes.

Great reference book should be in everyones library. My suggestion for the book would have been to list the major Bladder Cancer Centers in the United States. Enabling an individual to seek assistance in their own state other than Johns Hopkins, which is a fine Hospital.

I agree with previous reader websites would have been helpful.

Reading this book prior to visting your physician is strongly reccommended.

written by a very talented and capable doctor. Johns Hopkins is an outstanding facility, filled with top-level physicians.
Dr. Schoenberg rises to the top! He is straight forward and chillingly honest with his patients. You can believe what he says when the patient is under great pressure to make a decision about a very serious condition and surgery. This book is most helpful in helping a patient make a wise decision. I have not found another book that spells it out and tells it as it is. I own two copies and am constantly allowing friends to borrow one while they make this terrible discovery and decision on their life and future. Highly recommend it.

This book was recommended to me shortly after my husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer. It's outstanding and should be the first read upon learning of this diagnosis. It covers everything that a patient (and loved ones) should know.

An excellent well-written,illustrated book on bladder cancer, the disease, the therapy, the treatment, the medical viewpoint as well as patient experiences. The information is top-notch and told in an easily understood format, yet medically correct. Not only is this book great for the bladder cancer patient but also for family members.It helps to cut through all the unknowns and the fears. I highly recommend it. Years ago, I looked for such a book to help understand my father's condition, but none was available. Five stars plus to the author who took the time away from a busy medical practice to help educate the general public.