Explains in layperson's terms the various diseases of the prostrate, including benign hypertrophy, prostatitis, and prostatic cancer--the most common cancer in men--and provides information on symptoms of prostatic diseases in order to encourage early diagnosis.
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Written by a urologist/surgeon, this book seems to emphasize the "get in there and cut" approach. By adopting the "scare" technique that most medical writings aimed at the lay reader seem to use, the book makes one feel that surgery is the only way to go, even though the aftereffects may be worse than the disease. While fairly accurate (though the author does say that a man can not examine his own prostate, a procedure that is actually simple), the book tends to replicate itself in almost each and every chapter. While subtly repudiating radiation and hormone therapy, the author admits that the results are just about the same as they are for surgery. He certainly does not answer all the questions asked by this physician's patients. A far better choice, if a library could afford only one book on the subject, would be Sandra Salmans's Prostate: Questions You Have... Answers You Need ( LJ 10/1/93), which offers far more comprehensive information and less medical jargon.
- Edward R. Pinckney, M.D., Beverly Hills, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Edward R. Pinckney, M.D., Beverly Hills, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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