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No one can forecast the outcome of prostate cancer. Diagnosis, treatment decisions, and treatment complications are fraught with uncertainty and distress. In Managing Prostate Cancer, Dr. Andrew Roth teaches patients with prostate cancer and their loved ones strategies for how to live better with the questions and challenges that arise with this diagnosis.
List of contents
- Pregame: Overview and Introduction
- Part One: Diagnosis and Early Stage Disease
- Chapter One
- Why Me? Why Not Me? What Now? And Why Is a Psychiatrist Writing a Book about Prostate Cancer?
- Chapter Two
- How to Make the Right Treatment Choice When There Is No Perfect Choice
- Chapter Three
- Lifting the Weight of Waiting and Preparing for Treatment:
- Definitive Treatment vs. Watchful Waiting or Active Surveillance
- Chapter Four
- Prostate Cancer Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Problems:
- Enter the DRAFT and Learn the Emotional Judo (EJ) Playbook
- Chapter Five
- Do I Really Need a Psychiatric Medicine to Cope with Prostate Cancer?
- Chapter Six
- Keeping the Flames of Intimacy Alive
- Chapter Seven
- Urinary, Bowel, and Energy Leaks: This Wasn't Supposed to Happen to Me
- Chapter Eight
- Not for Patients Only: Spouses or Partners Can Manage Better, Communicate More Effectively, and Help the Whole Family
- Part Two: Later Stage Disease and Recurrence of Disease
- Chapter Nine
- Coping with Recurrence of Cancer If the "Definitive" Treatment Doesn't Work: Going Hormonal
- Chapter Ten
- Grieving for Loss . . . of Trust, of Physical Wholeness, of Invulnerability and Immortality:
- How to Re-Invest in Your Future As a Wise Role Model
- Index
About the author
Clinical Professor and Attending Psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Summary
No one can forecast the outcome of prostate cancer. Diagnosis, treatment decisions, and treatment complications are fraught with uncertainty and distress. In Managing Prostate Cancer, Dr. Andrew Roth teaches patients with prostate cancer and their loved ones strategies for how to live better with the questions and challenges that arise with this diagnosis.
