Managing Prostate Cancer

No one can forecast the outcome of prostate cancer. Diagnosis, treatment decisions, and treatment complications are fraught with uncertainty and distress. In Managing Prostate Cancer, Dr. Andrew Roth 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.

Clinical Professor and Attending Psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Pregame: Overview and Introduction
Part One: 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 to Make the Right Treatment Choice When There Is No Perfect Choice
Chapter Three
Lifting the Weight of Waiting and Preparing for Treatment:
Definitive Treatment vs. Watchful Waiting or Active Surveillance
Chapter Four
Prostate Cancer Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Problems:
Enter the DRAFT and Learn 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 Better, Communicate More Effectively, and Help the Whole Family
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, of Invulnerability and Immortality:
How to Re-Invest in Your Future As a Wise Role Model
Index