I am looking to read as much as I can about my recently diagnosed PCa disease. I have just about exhausted the books available at my local library, which weren't very many and mostly out of date. A good one I found is titled "Prostate Cancer-a New Approach to Treatment and Healing" by Dr. Ripoli from 2016.
I was looking on Amazon to find more, and there are numerous ones out there. Can anyone recommend which ones to read? Thanks.
Greatly appreciated. I did buy a copy of Dr Walsh's Guide which was recently updated with the 4th edition.
I just started reading today "Managing Prostate Cancer-A Guide to Better Living" by Dr Andrew Roth who is a psychiatrist specializing in psychological support for cancer patients.
I will be attending the PCRI conference in a couple of weeks, and am looking forward to getting alot of useful info.
I never recommend books for the very reason you said - they are out-of-date by the time they are printed. The state-of-the-art changes rapidly in this highly researched area.
Take a look at Dr. Jay Cohen's "Prostate Cancer Breakthroughs : The New Options You Need to Know About"----April, 2018 edition.
I think you will find that this group. Tall Allen and some more are as in tuned to the care today as any book. Fight the good Fight
Snuffy's book is excellent, he explains complex topics in an easy to comprehend way. It is outdated and does not include the latest treatments available but still does a great job describing how PCa works and why changing your diet is so important as you go through treatment.
Ed
Books, publications? Most are solid, but out-of-date within months of weeks. They reflect generally accepted diagnostics and treatments ... but use the internet: Google the topics and concerns for which you want information ... not only the most recent information (many resources), but Google will guide you along topic threads.
WHen I was iagnosed with PCa (20 years ago), the following books were influential in my decision for treatment (still cancer free after 20 years!).
The first was by Dr. Aubrey Pilgrim - “A Revolutionary Approach to Prostate Cancer”, and the second was by Robert Hitchcox - “Love, Sex, and PSA: Living and Loving with Prostate Cancer”. It appears these books may still be available on Amazon through resellers. Great resources.
I have the “Dr. Snuffy” Book. It is a good place to start, but is woefully out of date (2nd edition was dated 2007), and so much has changed since then. Much of it is outdated, but some of his dietary ideas ( he seems to favor a Mediterranean diet over a pure vegan diet) are still relevant. Some of the supplements he recommends for advanced PCa patients are still of questionable value, and others (like selenium) might even be counterproductive. But, the book provides some good and still relevant information and suggestions, and allows the reader/patient to make up his own mind about their usefulness. I take a few of the supplements he doesn’t recommend (curcumin with bioperine, Milk Thistle for liver health, resveratrol, and Zyflamend Whole Body, an anti-inflammatory herbal blend, which is controversial regarding its benefit. I don’t take a few of the supplements he recommends, because their efficacy in treating advanced OCa has been questioned or disproven in other studies. As always, don’t rely on one book or one doctor, do your own research, and make your best informed decision as to which (if any) supplements to use, and which to avoid.
More recent books include: “Androgen Deprivation Therapy, An Essential Guide for Prostate Cancer Patients and their Loved One’s.” By a trio of Canadian PhD’s, which focuses more on side-effects of ADT, and nutritional and adjunct therapies to ADT.
My favorite, though, is “The Key to Prostate Cancer” by Mark Schulz, M.D. (copyright 2018). This is a really good resource. Also, he divides PCa into 5 stages and 15 subtypes that are assigned colors to distinguish between them. Once you read the basic chapters, you can identify where you are on the color scale and can skip all of the subsequent chapters that don’t pertain to you. Even Dr. Snuffy Myers endorses this book. I bought it on Amazon, and still refer to it. It does have a section devoted to dietary issues and supplements.
In this forum we seem to have widely divergent opinions on both those issues, particularly the use of supplements as complementary resources to our medically prescribed treatments.
I wish someone would come out with a definitive book on vitamins, supplements, and herbals to help advanced PCa patients understand which of them can be useful adjuncts, and which amount to literally pissing our money down the toilet.
As Tall_Allen cautions, most books are already obsolete by the time they are printed and sold, so be sure to also use other reference sources.
Have a blessed day everyone! Off to the driving range. 🏌️⛳️😎
Great info. Thanks.
Good Tuesday Morning Hoping,
Try "Prostate Cancer for Dummies".
Always updated and a great resource.
Best wishes. Never Give In.
Mark, Atlanta
An inspirational read that gave me some hope was “ Radical Remissions ” in particular “Shin’s story.. so much info out there about PC your head will spin . Expect good and treat yourself with extra care and good results can follow. It s a bumpy road , but you’re far from alone on this path. Every guy with APC is with ya. Do our best. That’s all that we can do. !!
Search online for medical journals and prostate cancer. They will return brief summaries (abstracts) of research. Then take the summary to your library and have them order copies of the journal article (interlibrary loan).
Thanks. Are such medical journals and related summaries written for us, so we can understand them?
One excellent source of information is the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). Their state-of-the-art summaries of the different cancer types are produced by a large panel of experts about half of whom are researchers and half clinicians. The panel meets about six times per year, reviewing all of the recently published research to determine whether any changes should be made in their summaries. Updates to the summaries occur multiple times per year, making it more up-to-date than all but the very latest published book. Also, unlike most books, it incorporates the consensus views of many researchers.
The summaries are in two forms, a non-technical "patient" version and a more technical "health professional" version, which also includes a bibliography of the scientific articles considered to be the most important for the particular cancer. Here is a link to the NCI health professional summary for prostate cancer: cancer.gov/types/prostate/hp
I also recommend our own Tall_Allen's prostate cancer blog at: pcnrv.blogspot.com/ It contains an amazing amount of useful and deeply informed information on a very large number of topics.
Alan
No idea if you are anywhere near MD Anderson, but it provides a patient education library which provides resources such as books, CDs, DVDs, brochures, pamphlets,...etc. They do have a few books about prostate cancer. Take Care, Monty
Thanks. I live in NJ, and am being treated at CINJ. They also have a patient library, but have a limited selection of PC related books.
Tall Allen et. al. seem to be forgetting that more than a few folks aren't computer wizards - I'm thinking of my father - and for them, they are not comfortable scanning the internet for medical journals and research publications. My father's limits are hard print resources, like actual physical books and newspapers. So for these men and women, it's either a book, a pamphlet, a magazine, or nothing.
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