Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery

by Hennenfent, Bradley

• ISBN13: 9780971745414
• ISBN10: 0971745412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Roseville Books

Author Biography

Bradley Hennenfent, MD, is a graduate of Northwestern University, the University of Illinois Medical School, and the University of Illinois Affiliated Hospitals Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He first became interested in the prostate when his Uncle Steve, who inspired him to attend medical school, died from his prostate cancer treatment in 1984. As Dr. Hennenfent researched the prostate, he became increasingly dismayed by the drastic operations that men were being subjected to without an understanding of their consequences. He discovered that the methods of diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer were controversial, and that the research published by urologists is substantially flawed. Dr. Hennenfent became a men's health activist. He began doing original research. He founded the Internet newsgroups sci.med.prostate.cancer, sci.med.prostate.bph, and sci.med.prostate.prostatitis. He was also one of the original founders of the Internet Prostate Problems Mailing List. Together with his father, Mike Hennenfent, he cofounded the nonprofit Prostatitis Foundation (www.prostatitis.org), where almost a million men per year visit for help. Dr. Hennenfent has been published in the British Journal of Urology, the Digital Urology Journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Consultant, Emergindex, Techniques in Urology, and the Journal of Pelvic Surgery. He also authored a monograph entitled the Prostatitis Syndromes, donating all proceeds to the non-profit Prostatitis Foundation. Besides being a physician, Dr. Hennenfent is also an economist who believes that a well-designed health-care system is more important to the health of a nation's people than any single physician's skill and knowledge. He has traveled the world doing medical research and studying health-care delivery systems. Dr. Hennenfent has delivered more than forty-five lectures at various hospitals. He owns a patent that enables less painful digital rectal examinations and prostatic massage. Dr. Hennenfent has spent time educating congress on the need for prostatitis research and has helped secure millions of dollars in federal funding for prostatitis research. Among the author's heroes are Jessica Mitford, whose book, The American Way of Death, exposed the funeral industry's financial exploitation of grieving relatives; Randy Shiltz, whose book, And the Band Played On, exposed the system's lack of response to the Aids epidemic; and Hillary Johnson, author of Osler's Web: Inside the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic, which exposed another shameful response of the medical system to a major health issue. Dr. Hennenfent is a fan of Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America, the book by Michael Wheeler that first brought popular attention to how and why statistics are often misused; the hilarious How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff; and The Honest Truth about Lying with Statistics by Cooper B. Holmes. Dr. Hennenfent lives in downstate, Illinois where he writes, does medical research, and contributes to the non-profit Prostatitis Foundation. Someday, he hopes to open a clinical research center for prostate diseases and to organize a biomedical company to do research. Dr. Hennenfent started the web sites: SurvivingProstateCancerWithoutSurgery.org, ProstatitisAndBPH.org, and EpididymitisFoundation.org. To contact Dr. Hennenfent about medical information, please post to the message boards on one of his web sites. To suggest changes in this book, please send e-mail to [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Title	i
Copyright	ii
Other Books by Dr. Hennenfent	iii
Table of Contents	iv
Dedication	vi
Disclaimer	vii
Quotes	ix
Opening Glossary	x
Preface	xi
The Big Lie	1	(7)
Ron's Story	8	(2)
Prominent Men with Prostate Cancer	10	(7)
What is Prostate Cancer?	17	(8)
Prostate Cancer Symptoms	25	(1)
What Causes Prostate Cancer?	26	(13)
Prostatitis and Prostate Cancer	39	(9)
Staging Prostate Cancer	48	(4)
Gleason Grades and Scores	52	(8)
Your Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Level	60	(14)
The PSA Screening Debate	74	(3)
Moe and Larry's Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer	77	(16)
Watchful Waiting for Localized Prostate Cancer	93	(13)
Active Non-Invasive Therapy (ANIT)	106	(6)
PC SPES	112	(9)
Estrogen	121	(2)
Cryoablation of the Prostate	123	(16)
Hormone Blockade for prostate cancer	139	(3)
Hormone Blockade Details	142	(13)
Intermittent Hormone Blockade and Bud Irish	155	(12)
Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer	167	(14)
3-D Radiation for Prostate Cancer	181	(13)
Radiation Seed Implants (Brachytherapy)	194	(18)
The Radical Prostatectomy	212	(9)
The Radical Prostatectomy and Your Penis	221	(6)
Impotence After the Radical Prostatectomy	227	(6)
Sexual Function Inventory	233	(4)
The Radical Prostatectomy and Incontinence	237	(4)
The Radical Prostatectomy and Quality of Life	241	(5)
Does the Radical Prostatectomy Work?	246	(18)
The Wrong Reasons for Surgery	264	(18)
Six Ways the Radical Prostatectomy May Spread Prostate Cancer	282	(5)
What I Would Do	287	(4)
Patient Power	291	(7)
Recommended Web Sites	298	(1)
Acknowledgements	299	(6)
About the Artists	305	(3)
About the Author	308	(2)
How to Order More Books	310	(1)
Figure Index	311	(3)
Index	314