Best Options for Treating and Diagnosing Prostate Cancer:Based on Research, Clinical Trials, and Scientific and Investigational Studies [Paperback]

James Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1999

"The Best Options for Diagnosing and Treating Prostate Cancer" is a general help for anyone who has this disease. Chapters include:

* The best changes to make to possibly prevent prostate cancer
* The best tumor marker for monitoring prostate cancer for treatment
* The best choice for staging localized prostate cancer
* The best method for conducting a prostate biopsy
* The best method for applying external beam radiation to prostate cancer
* The best complementary therapy for prostate cancer patients
* The best radiation treatment for prostate cancer
* The best treatment for multiple bone sites
* The best combination of drugs for prostate cancer
* Developing a diagnostic and treatment plan by considering the "bests"

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Before reading this book, I didn't know that prostRcision is more effective than surgery -- as evidenced by two 10-year survival studies -- and has fewer side effects. Why don't more men know this? I'm circulating Dr. Lewis' previous book around to other patients in my support group." -- C.P., Detroit, MI

"Thanks to Dr. Lewis, I got an MRSI to determine if my prostate cancer was beyond my capsule before undergoing surgery -- it was! This book saved me from having unnecessary surgery." -- D.B., Jericho, NY

"This book mentions the first complementaty therapy shown to treat a condition of prostate cancer known as hormone refractory disease. Boy, was I happy to learn this!" -- D.K., Tampa, FL

About the Author

James Lewis, Jr., Ph.D. has made it his life's mission to provide prostate cancer patients with the information they need to successfully fight their disease. By meeting with top researchers, physicians, and specialists, Dr. James Lewis has built a tremendous knowledge base about prostate cancer.

Dr. Lewis has a B.A. in education, an M.S. in special education, and a Ph.D. in education administration. Before his own battle with prostate cancer, he had a long and distinguished career in education.

In 1993 he wrote the best-selling book, "How I Survived Prostate Cancer...And So Can You." More than 70,000 copies of that book have been sold. Most recently, he has authored "The Herbal Remedy for Prostate Cancer" and "Best Options for Diagnosing and Treating Prostate Cancer." Lewis also co-authored the critically acclaimed "New Guidelines for Surviving Prostate Cancer" with E. Roy Berger, M.D.

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Health Education Literary Publisher (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883257042
• ISBN-13: 978-1883257040
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,106,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars something is wrong somewhere, June 7, 2000

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"denisbennett" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Options for Treating and Diagnosing Prostate Cancer:Based on Research, Clinical Trials, and Scientific and Investigational Studies (Paperback)

I have just read 'The Best Options for Diagnosing and Treating Prostate Cancer' published by Health Education Literary Publisher, on which I could not find any information, but their ISBN suggests that they are a very tiny publisher - maybe self published?).

It is an extraordinary biased book giving the 'best' methods for possibly preventing, monitoring, staging, conducting a biopsy, treatment etc. It assumes the reader has already read and is aware of the basics of prostate cancer and, therefore, does not cover the material that is provided by most other books - it is the next stage on (which is good). The author (James Lewis - a non-doctor survivor) really puts himself on the line and open to challenge. Nevertheless it's the most helpful book I have read to date. It doesn't give wide ranges of percentages - it's specific, it doesn't pussyfoot about. For me, it is great book as it unashamedly gives his 'gold standard' for any treatment. It also has the most comprehensive bibliography (30 pages and about 250 references) so it appears to be exceptionally well researched.

It is highly evangelistic in its selling of Dr. Frank Ritz' prostRcision treatment at the Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia, claiming that cancer free survival rates are at least equal to and probably much better than surgery, even that performed by Dr. Walsh's Johns Hopkins team - and with the added benefits of significantly less chance of erectile dysfunction and other side effects.

If what he says is anywhere near the truth there doesn't seem to be any other choice but to have prostRcision.

I find it disturbing that other books only seem to mention prostRcision as an aside. The books published by the American Cancer Society and the Mayo Clinic don't even make a single reference to prostRcision. So something is wrong somewhere!

Have you read it? If not, at this stage of my limited knowledge, I would highly recommend it.