Prostate Cancer is Curable

By Santiago Vilas

An educational vehicle for the patient-to-be (that is, all men age 35-40+) as well as for the man already diagnosed with prostate cancer...and for his wife or partner. The purpose: to induce men to assume a more active and aggressive responsibility for monitoring their own prostate health. After the Chronology of Events related to prostate cancer discoveries and treatments throughout history, Dr. Vilas discusses multiples statistics that enlighten men on how to approach and what to expect from their medical care specialists and HMOs, and how to keep their own medical records. Then, he identifies symptoms, from urinary difficulties (frequency, intermittency, urgency, weak-stream, dribbling, disuria, etc.) to sexual dysfunction; he explains positive tests indicative of cancer and then he details the main treatments available, from "Doing Nothing" to hormonal therapy to surgery to radiation and to the latest development, the daVinci Robotic Radical Prostatectomy. Statistical explanations of PSA tests, biopsy, and staging of the cancer give the reader a wide spectrum of knowledge to be able to interpret tests and doctors' reports; the man learns when and how to request which tests and why. In the U.S.A. alone, 234,460 new cases of prostate cancer are being diagnosed in 2006, and 27,350 more men will die from this disease. Yet most men have no knowledge, or very limited, of prostate misbehavior. Additionally, many men, when diagnosed, complain that they do not receive enough information from their medical professionals and that they cannot respond intelligently when asked to make treatment decisions -as asserted by the over 100 patients from seven countries personally interviewed by the author.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974894613
• ISBN13: 9780974894614
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Yago Editorial, LLC
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Unbelievably narcissistic

I tried to comprehend why the author felt anyone would find this book beneficial, much less interesting. All I left with was the feeling that he feels he is special and that his egotistic manner should prevail. It is obvious he is not someone who would be a worthwhile person to follow in any way. Very sad for someone to think we have such low esteem that we would waste another thought on his prognosis for this terrible disease.

Prostate cancer

This is one of the most informative books about prostate cancer and the various treatments I have seen. Very "readable" and not very many pages (179).