Juliano Statdlober

I Beat Prostate Cancer Juliano Statdlober

This book portrays the perspective of a prostate cancer patient to other patients, their families, and acquaintances. It is not a medical or scientific text, and it is plain and easy to understand. Prostate cancer is the most common among men, right after skin cancer. It is essential that everyone, after a certain age, perform periodic examinations to ensure that, in case a prostate cancer is detected, it is as early as possible. Why? What is the prostate, and what is its function? What happens to a man without a prostate? How does the diagnosis of cancer work? What are its steps? If the cancer is confirmed, how is the treatment process? What are the emotions that arise? What are the fears? What are the possible consequences? What are the treatments? How does prostatectomy work? All these answers and some others are in this book with the view of a patient of prostate cancer. It explains the journey from the investigation, through diagnosis, treatment, and healing. Some suggestions are presented by the author, resulting from his learning about the whole process. For whom can this book be useful? For all who seek better information about prostate cancer, the importance of its early diagnosis, and its treatment. For those who are diagnosed with prostate cancer, finding information and some critical answers, to which I, the author, would like to have had access to when I discovered that I had cancer. For relatives and friends of a patient, who can understand the feelings that can arise with the disease, to deal better with the situation.