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(More customer reviews)Each year over 200,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 30,000 die from it each year. About the same number of women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. At one time, most women with breast cancer had the whole breast removed. Now most of them will have a Lumpectomy whereby only the cancer tumor is removed.
At one time when a man was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was immediately urged to have surgery to remove the prostate. It
was the "Gold Standard". But more and more men are learning that today we have many other options.
The prostate and seminal vesicles manufactures almost all of the ejaculate. When the prostate is removed, a man's sex life will be changed forever. He may still be able to have an orgasm but it will not be the same. Many of the men will no longer be able to have a normal erection. Since the prostate is intimately connected to the bladder valve, it is often damaged. The man may be incontinent for the rest of his life.
Dr. Bradley Hennenfent describes some of the options that one may choose instead of surgery. I wish I had known these options in 1992 when I was encouraged by my urologist to have surgery.
Any cancer therapy will have some side effects. The alternate
options listed by Dr. Hennenfent will have fewer unpleasant ones.
I strongly recommend that any man who is diagnosed with prostate cancer to buy this book. It is a small price to pay in order to hold on to your prostate. I sorely miss my prostate.
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The niche bestseller "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" begins with the shooting of a urologist and includes a World War II Battle. The book exposes the big lie about radical prostate surgery, is filled with cartoons and simple diagrams, and is written for the average layperson in easy-to-understand style. "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" quotes Dr. Gary Onik, M.D., Cryosurgeon and Director of Surgical Imaging at Celebration Health Hospital, Celebration, Florida, who says: "I expect that within five years we will see the death of the radical prostatectomy as a treatment for prostate cancer." The author, Bradley Hennenfent, M.D., has seen five uncles suffer from prostate cancer and his book includes many uplifting stories about less harmful treatments than surgery. Dr. Hennenfent also explains the problem of lies, damn lies, and prostate cancer statistics. The adverse effects of surgery: impotence, sexual dysfunction, incontinence, and urethral strictures are explained in realistic fashion. "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" quotes oncologist Dr. Robert Leibowitz of Compassionate Oncology Medical Group, who says: "If radical prostatectomies worked, the data would be there. The reason the data is not there is because radical prostatectomies don't work." Dr. Leibowitz adds: "No prospective randomized trial has ever found radical prostatectomy to be both necessary and effective." Urologist W. Reid Pitts, Jr., M.D., FACS, wrote an outstanding letter-to-the-editor of the "Journal of Urology" lambasting the radical prostatectomy. When interviewed for "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery," Dr. Pitts said: "Although I did the first ever nerve sparing radical prostatectomy at New York-Cornell Hospital, I've abandoned the radical prostatectomy for my prostate cancer patients. There is always a better treatment option." Dr. Hennenfent co-founded the Prostatitis Foundation (www.prostatitis.org). He also founded the Epididymitis Foundation (www.epididymitisfoundation.org), and the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation (www.acousticneuromafoundation.org). He previously published "The Prostatitis Syndromes." "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" quotes urologist Ronald Wheeler, M.D. of the Prostatitis and Prostate Cancer Center, who says: "In my opinion, prostatitis resolution holds the key to the future of prostate cancer resolution." 'Two randomized, controlled studies suggest that 95% or more of all prostate cancer surgery done to date, has failed to extend the life of the patient," says Dr. Bradley Hennenfent M.D., the book's author. 'Surgery should no longer be presented or advertised as a cure-all for prostate cancer," says Dr. Hennenfent. 'My book is all about the options to harmful surgery. 'Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery," details the harm done by surgery, while explaining the pros and cons of watchful waiting, active noninvasive therapy, radiation seed implants, three-dimensional radiation therapy, herbal medications, cryosurgery, and hormone blockade. The website for the book is: www.SurvivingProstateCancerWithoutSurgery.org.
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