100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Disease

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By providing both the doctor's and patient's view, this book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options. Title Page CONTENTS PREFACE PART ONE The Basics 1. Where is the prostate gland? 2. What does the prostate gland do? 3. What is the anatomy of the prostate gland? 4. What diseases can affect the prostate gland? PART TWO Prostate- Specific Antigen (PSA) 5. What is PSA? 6. What is the normal range of PSA? 7. What are age-adjusted PSA ranges? 8. What is PSA density? 9. What is PSA velocity? 10. What is free PSA? 11. What is complexed PSA? 12. What is HK2? 13. What is acid phosphatase? 14. What factors can influence PSA levels? PART THREE Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) 15. What causes BPH? 16. How common is BPH? 17. What are the symptoms of BPH? 18. How is BPH diagnosed? 19. What is a uroflow measurement? 20. What is a bladder ultrasound? 21. What is a cystoscopy? 22. What is a urodynamics test? 23. What is the relationship between BPH and PSA? 24. What other disorders can mimic BPH? 25. What damage can BPH cause? 26. Does nutrition have any impact on BPH? PART FOUR Medical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy 27. When does BPH need to be treated? 28. What are alpha receptors, and how do they influence BPH symptoms? 29. How are alpha blockers used to treat BPH symptoms? 30. What alpha-blocker drugs are available for BPH symptoms? 31. What are the side effects of alphablocker drugs? 32. What are the results of BPH treatment using alpha-blocker drugs? 33. What is DHT? 34. inhibitors are available? 35. What are the side effects of 5 alpha reductase inhibitors? 36. treatment using 5 alpha reductase inhibitor drugs? 37. What effects do 5 alpha reductase inhibitor drugs have on PSA levels? 38. Can alpha blocker drugs and 5 alpha reductase drugs be used together? 39. What is the effect of 5 alpha reductase drugs on prostate cancer? 40. What is the role of herbal therapy in BPH treatment? 41. Can saw palmetto be used to treat BPH? PART FIVE Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy 42. What is an open prostatectomy? 43. What is a transurethral 44. What is a transurethral incision of the prostate? 45. What is electrovaporization of the prostate? 46. What are the side effects of surgical treatment of BPH? 47. What are the results of surgical treatment of BPH? PART SIX Minimally Invasive Surgery of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy 48. What is minimally invasive surgical treatment of BPH? 49. What is laser therapy of the prostate? 50. What types of laser therapy are available? 51. What are the results of laser therapy? 52. What is microwave therapy of the prostate? 53. What are the results of microwave therapy? 54. What is radiofrequency therapy of the prostate? 55. What are the results of radiofrequency therapy? 56. What are prostatic stents? 57. What are the results of prostate stents? 58. What is balloon dilation of the prostate? 59. What are the results of balloon dilation of the prostate? 60. What other minimally invasive surgical treatments of the prostate are available? 61. What is the role of a permanent indwelling urethral catheter in the treatment of BPH? 62. What is the role of a clean intermittent catheterization in the treatment of BPH? 63. What is the role of urecholine in the treatment of BPH? PART SEVEN Prostatitis 64. What is prostatitis? 65. What types of prostatitis are there? 66. What is prostadynia? 67. How is prostatitis diagnosed? 68. How is prostatitis treated? 69. How is prostadynia diagnosed? 70. How is prostadynia treated? PART EIGHT Prostate Cancer: Overview 71. Who gets prostate cancer? 72. How is prostate cancer diagnosed? 73. What is prostate ultrasound and biopsy? 74. What are Gleason grades and scores? 75. Is prostate cancer genetic? 76. How is prostate cancer staged? 77. Does nutrition influence prostate PART NINE Prostate Cancer: Treatment for Localized Disease 78. What is observation only? 79. Who is a candidate for observation only? 80. What are the results of observation only? 81. What is a radical prostatectomy? 82. What types of radical prostatectomy are available? 83. What are the potential side effects of a radical prostatectomy? 84. What are the results of radical prostatectomy? 85. What is external beam radiation therapy? 86. What is conformational radiation therapy? 87. What are the side effects of external beam radiation? 88. What are the results of external beam radiation? 89. What is brachytherapy? 90. What are the side effects of brachytherapy? 91. What are the results of brachytherapy? 92. What is cryotherapy? 93. What are the side effects of cryosurgery? 94. What are the results of cryosurgery of the prostate? PART TEN Prostate Cancer: Treatment for Metastatic Disease 95. How is metastatic disease diagnosed? 96. What is an orchiectomy? 97. What are GnRH agonists? 98. What are antiandrogens? 99. What is combination therapy? 100. What other therapy is available for metastatic disease? APPENDIX A Supplements and the Prostate APPENDIX B Support Groups Glossary Index