Prostate Cancer : Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care / Meredith Wallace, Lorrie L. Powel, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prostate cancer : the nature of the problem / Meredith Wallace and Lorrie L. Powel -- Prostate cancer : risk factors and prevention / Joannie Meehan -- Assessment, screening and diagnosis of prostate cancer / Eun-Hyun Lee -- Treatment choices and the decision-making process / Maureen E. O'Rourke -- Quality of life with prostate cancer / Lorrie L. Powel and Meredith Wallace -- Nursing care for radical prostatectomy / Penny Marschke -- Nursing care for radiation treatment / Vanna M. Dest -- Hormone therapy / Dorothy A. Calabrese -- Watchful waiting-managing prostate cancer as a chronic disease / Meredith Wallace -- Prevalent issues in patient education / Vanna M. Dest and Meredith Wallace -- End of life care / Susan Derby and Diane B. Loseth.

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Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in American adult males. The content of this book, developed by clinical nurse experts, provides information on the state-of-the-art care of men with prostate cancer. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and psychosocial effects of this disease. A major focus of the book is on quality of life and the nurses' role in improving this through teaching patients and their families how to manage common symptoms and side effects such as urinary and sexual problems.

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