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Book Review: Surviving Prostate Cancer
Without Surgery
Dr Hennenfent’s exposé is a watershed in the information
available to those who have been diagnosed with prostate
cancer, and to those wishing to improve their knowledge
of the problem. Its content may prove critical to sufferers
in deciding what treatment option to adopt, and what quality
of life and life expectancy they may realize as a consequence.
The book readily distinguishes from many others published before it because of
Dr Hennenfent’s standing as a doctor of medicine. His account is written from
inside the medical profession and reflects an intimate knowledge of both good
and bad in medical practice. He is also a Director of the prominent US organization,
the Prostatitis Foundation, which actively promotes information about prostate
infection and has an ongoing engagement with the US Government in identifying
research opportunities that may improve the plight of sufferers in the US.
The book bears an authority that has no parallel in earlier texts on this subject.
Dr Hennenfent’s frankness in informing readers without fear or favor of the serious
concerns associated with radical prostatectomy is what readers have wanted and
needed for decades. He reveals the absence of adequate peer scrutiny of high-risk
and inappropriate treatment which is all-too-often being routinely dispensed
to patients by his urological colleagues. Elsewhere, he highlights the failure
of the urology profession to initiate controlled studies utilizing the wealth
of raw data that they have at their disposal from operations they have performed
and other forms of intervention they have administered or coordinated. Such studies
would offer great potential to advance the knowledge and understanding of the
disease, and in turn offer scope for improved treatment outcomes for the current
and future generations of patients.
Good science does not always emerge on its own. In the case of the treatment
of prostate cancer, it requires the determination of advocates like Dr Hennenfent
and an informed and determined public to force the reform of attitudes and practice
within the medical profession in general, and within the urology profession in
particular. In an era of rapid communication technology, it can be expected that
the message of this book will quickly spread to the wider global community, and
in so doing will take the debate to a new level. Hopefully, it will also bring
about that good science that is desperately needed by so many.
The book is compelling reading not only for those who feel powerless and confused
as they face the dilemma of what road to take for treatment, but also for those
who know the ever-looming danger of prostate cancer and believe that being forewarned
is to be forearmed.
Mr A S McCaffrey
Brisbane, Australia
1 January 2005 |
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Surviving
Prostate Cancer
Without Surgery
Should I Be Tested
for Cancer?
The Prostatitis Syndromes
ScarierStories.com by George Hennenfent
The Prostatitis Manual
The Prostatitis Foundation Information Packet
Textbook of Prostatitis
Fertile vs. Infertile
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