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A Patient's Guide to Managing Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

Table of Contents
 

Chapter

Title
1 Introduction
2 When you need immediate attention
3 Take charge of the disease and the treatments
4 Challenge the HRPCa diagnosis
5 Build a winning medical team
6 Collect and organize your medical records
7 Learn about HRPCa
8 An overall health strategy for managing HRPCa
9 Take Care of Your General health
10 The First Treatment is to Continue Hormone Therapy
11 Protect Your Bones from Deterioration
12 Radiation Therapy and When to Use it
13 Second-Line Hormone Therapy
14 Chemotherapies
15 Managing Chemotherapy side effects
16 Treatments that Supplement Primary Treatments
17 Managing pain
18 Clinical Trials and Experimental Treatments
19 Monitoring Your Progress With Tests, Scans and Radiography
20 What if you are also fighting another serious disease
21 Small Cell Prostate Cancer
   
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Disclaimer
The authors of this book are not medical professionals and do not make any claims of medical accuracy or efficacy for any of the diagnostic or treatment recommendations. All readers are advised to consult their physicians on any of the recommendations herein.


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