New Book Guides Men On Fighting Prostate Cancer
- From: "GWhyte" <gwhyte3003@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:13:26 -0400
"New Book Guides Men On Fighting Prostate Cancer
African Americans have a 50% higher incidence than whites, 100% higher
mortality
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Baton Rouge, LA (BlackNews.com) - "It is surprising that a mature man may
never have wondered about the intricacies that make his plumbing system
work" is one of the first provocative warnings of the new book Masculinity
versus Castration - On the Way to fighting Prostate Cancer, by writer and
ex-patient himself Santiago Vilas, Ph.D. (Yago Editorial, LLC; ISBN
0974894605; Retail $18.00).
"The book," says Vilas, "is a result of 3½-year research of the most
world-renown specialists in six countries and of interviews with over one
hundred patients of seven countries."
"It was conceived (a) to induce the 'patient-to-be' (before he is diagnosed,
that is, all men age 40+) to assume a more active responsibility for
monitoring his health, (b) to help him develop, by anticipation before he
becomes a "patient", an attitude of confrontation with the illness and of
positive cure, and (c) to access data that enable him to make educated
personal decisions." That is, "patient-designed."
The author goes further: he also compiles the first "Chronology of Events"
throughout history to illustrate the development of prostate cancer
treatments, and he pays the first graphic tribute ever to the most eminent
scientists who made cure possible.
Vilas warns men who ignore the somehow to-be-expected diagnostic and who
then hesitate to attack the cancer promptly - many because they do not know
how, others neglecting to learn. "Over 200,000 men are diagnosed with
prostate cancer every year, and nearly 30,000 die of this disease (3.4 per
hour), mostly because it was detected too late for cure, when it had spread
to other organs. The percentage of casualties is much higher among African
Americans (50% higher incidents, 100% higher fatalities)".
"The difference between dying of prostate cancer and having a good
probability of being cured rests on early diagnosis, when the cancer is
still localized within the gland." The author urges urologists to disclose
more openly the cancer facts to patients ("and to their wives or partners,
often neglected") and to defuse the myth; "prostate illness is no longer a
stigma".
"Prostate misbehavior can dramatically change men and their wives or
partners forever".
Masculinity versus Castration guides men from knowing nothing about their
prostate to having enough knowledge to make treatment decisions that are
best to the individual. How to identify symptoms, medical record keeping,
what to ask the urologist and how to interpret the doctor's answers and
statistics are fully explained with illustrations and tables. Likewise, he
studies the intricacies involved in deciding, once diagnosed, whether to
accept castration by hormonal therapy, to remove his prostate and yet
preserving his urinary and sexual functions (the "anatomical radical
prostatectomy technique" created by Dr. Walsh), or "to murder" the prostate
leaving it inside resting in peace and still preserving the same urinary and
sexual functions (another modern technique, "brachytherapy", initiated and
promoted by doctors Holm, Ragde, Blasko, Critz, and others).
This book dissects for discussion most of the contemporary direct influences
on the patient, such as personal attitudes, statistics, drugs, physicians,
HMOs, treatments, his rights and responsibilities.
(For more information: www.yagoeditorial.com, www.amazon.com and
www.amazon.com\advantage)
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- References:
- The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN)
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