Surviving prostate cancer : what you need to know to make informed decisions / E. Fuller Torrey ; il...
Surviving prostate cancer : what you need to know to make informed decisions / E. Fuller Torrey ; il...
Surviving prostate cancer : what you need to know to make informed decisions / E. Fuller Torrey ; illustrations by Carlton Stoiber.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
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T0360423
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. On being diagnosed -- 2. How serious is your cancer? -- 3. Surgical treatment -- 4. Radiation treatment -- 5. Hormone treatment -- 6. Cryotherapy -- 7. Alternative and experimental therapies -- 8. Treatment decisions -- 9. Your support system -- 10. Major complications and their treatment -- 11....
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2006.
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Summary
"When Dr. E. Fuller Torrey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, none of the books he could find was current enough or comprehensive enough to satisfy his need for information. This book is for the hundreds of thousands of other men who each year receive the same frightening diagnosis. It is the book that Dr. Torrey wished he had had when he was faci...
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Surviving prostate cancer : what you need to know to make informed decisions / E. Fuller Torrey ; illustrations by Carlton Stoiber.
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Yale University Press health & wellness.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from HEALTH/ N616.99463/ 29.
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c2006.
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T0360423
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74VKJRX5dlqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJRX5dlqO
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ISBN
9780300116403
0300116403 (alk. paper)
9780300116403 (alk. paper)
DDC
616.99463
MMS ID
991022157919702626
