Mayo Clinic on Prostrate Health

A guide to preventing and treating all forms of prostate disease uses accessible language to reveal the risk factors, the most accurate tests, treatment options, nutritional supplements and herbs, and at-home therapies.

Preface

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Part 1: Prostate Primer

About the Prostate

3

(8)

A healthy prostate

4

(1)

When things go wrong

5

(1)

Symptoms that may signal a problem

6

(1)

Are you at risk?

7

(2)

Answers to your questions

9

(2)

Getting a Prostate Checkup

11

(14)

Basic diagnostic tests

11

(3)

More on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test

14

(3)

The great debate

17

(3)

In search of a better screening tool

20

(1)

Answers to your questions

21

(4)

Part 2: Noncancerous Conditions

Living with Prostatitis

25

(10)

What kind do you have?

28

(1)

Designing a treatment plan

29

(3)

When it's really not prostatitis

32

(1)

Answers to your questions

33

(2)

Understanding Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

35

(6)

A common fact of life

36

(1)

Seeing a doctor

36

(1)

Getting a diagnosis

37

(3)

Answers to your questions

40

(1)

Treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

41

(18)

Watchful waiting

41

(1)

Medication

42

(2)

Surgery

44

(3)

Heat therapy (thermotherapy)

47

(3)

Nonsurgical procedures

50

(1)

Weighing your options

51

(5)

Answers to your questions

56

(3)

Part 3: Prostate Cancer

Learning You Have Cancer

59

(14)

Symptoms that may signal cancer

61

(1)

How prostate cancer is diagnosed

62

(1)

Grading the cancer

63

(2)

Has the cancer spread?

65

(4)

Staging the cancer

69

(1)

Survival statistics

70

(1)

Answers to your questions

71

(2)

What Are Your Options?

73

(14)

Letting the cancer alone

74

(1)

Removing your prostate gland

75

(4)

Destroying the cancer with radiation

79

(4)

Freezing cancer cells (cryotherapy)

83

(2)

Answers to your questions

85

(2)

When the Cancer Is Advanced

87

(12)

Controlling the cancer with hormones

87

(3)

Choosing testicular surgery

90

(2)

Using chemotherapy

92

(1)

Trying an experimental procedure

93

(2)

Strategies for relieving pain

95

(3)

Answers to your questions

98

(1)

Coping with Complications

99

(16)

Learning to control incontinence

99

(7)

Getting help for impotence

106

(5)

Dealing with bowel disorders

111

(2)

Answers to your questions

113

(2)

Getting On with Life

115

(22)

Preparing for follow-up visits

115

(1)

Overcoming cancer's emotional toll

116

(5)

Regaining your strength

121

(2)

Eating better to feel better

123

(3)

Going back to work

126

(2)

Communicating with family and friends

128

(2)

Joining a support group

130

(3)

Answers to your questions

133

(4)

Part 4: Prostate Health

Can You Prevent Prostate Disease?

137

(16)

Eat more of these potential cancer fighters

137

(4)

Forgo the fat

141

(1)

Go for the grains, fruits and vegetables

141

(4)

Get and stay active

145

(6)

See your doctor regularly

151

(1)

Answers to your questions

151

(2)

What About Complementary and Alternative Therapies?

153

(14)

Dietary and herbal supplements

154

(4)

Mind and body therapies

158

(2)

Traditional Chinese medicine

160

(2)

Other healing routes

162

(1)

How to approach nontraditional therapies

163

(2)

The choice is yours

165

(2)

Additional Resources

167

(4)

Index

171

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Mayo Clinic on Prostrate Health

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