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Dr. Patrick Walsh's guide to surviving prostate cancer / Edward M. Schaeffer, Janet Farrar Worthington, and Patrick C. Walsh.

by Schaeffer, Edward M.

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616.99463 W226d 2023

Prostate -- Cancer.

Prostate -- Cancer -- Treatment.

9781538726860 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Doctor Patrick Walsh's guide to surviving prostate cancer

Guide to surviving prostate cancer

Surviving prostate cancer

5th revised ed.

xiii, 465 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Patrick C. Walsh, MD, the world's foremost authority on prostate cancer, is the Distinguished Service Professor of Urology at the Brady Urological Institute of the The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Walsh was honored as the 2007 National Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence by America's Top Doctors.

Janet Farrar Worthington has written and edited numerous health publications and books. She is the editor of Discovery, a research magazine for the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins, and also the writer/editor of LEAP, a magazine for Johns Hopkins Rheumatology. The former editor of Hopkins Medical News, the alumni magazine for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she is the senior writer for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. She has written three non-medical books, Bumble Creek Farm, Where's the Wine?, and Nelson Llama (with Laura Hatcher), a children's book. She also has a nonmedical blog. For six years, she was a national commentator for Marketplace, on public radio. She lives in Prescott, Arizona.

"This revised guide covers every aspect of prostate cancer: everything from potential causes, diets, and diagnostic tests to curative treatment and innovative means of controlling advanced stages of cancer."

Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, is Chair of the Department of Urology at Feinberg School of Medicine and Program Director of the Genitourinary Oncology Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. He is a clinically active urologist with a specialized practice in prostate cancer. His globally recognized prostate cancer research focuses on at-risk populations, diagnosis, treatment outcomes, and the molecular biology of lethal prostate cancer.

Walsh, Patrick C., 1938-

Worthington, Janet Farrar.

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