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Managing prostate cancer : a guide for living better /
"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. Over 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. How they medically combat this disease is up to th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pregame: Overview and Introduction
- Part One: New 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 Can You Make the Right Treatment Choice When There Is No Perfect Choice
- Chapter Three: Lifting the Weight of Waiting and Preparing for Treatment: Deciding Between Definitive Treatment and Watchful Waiting or Active Surveillance
- Chapter Four: Prostate Cancer Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Problems: Relax and Enter the DRAFT of 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 Prostate Cancer Better Too
- 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, and Sense of Immortality: Reinvesting in Your Future As a Wise Role Model.