Empowered Against Prostate Cancer: Treatment Guide with Patient Stories

When cancer hits home and the diagnosis is prostate cancer, expert guidance is crucial. The disease varies widely in its aggressiveness, making decisions about possible treatments and side effects very challenging. Considering options can be overwhelming, since choices may include: watchful waiting, radiation seeds, surgery, external radiation, hormones, combinations of these, as well as many promising new treatments. While there are many effective anti-cancer therapies, as author Dr. Patrick Maguire states, “An empowered patient is the best weapon against prostate cancer!”

This potentially lifesaving guide provides men and their loved ones with the critical information they need, in a format that’s easy to understand. Maguire uses patient stories to describe the spectrum of prostate cancer. Readers will learn:
- How to avoid the TOP 5 MISTAKES men make after a prostate cancer diagnosis
- Why you must know your “risk group”
- Which men should consider no immediate treatment
- The real deal about prostate seeds and robotic prostatectomy
- Which new technologies and medicines are improving men’s lives
- The different side effects of these treatments based on real data
- The 10 CRITICAL QUESTIONS to ask your cancer doctor(s)

“Empowered Against Prostate Cancer: Treatment Guide with Patient Stories” was reviewed by national prostate cancer experts from Johns Hopkins and Emory University Hospitals.