The whole life prostate book : everything that every man-at every age-needs to know about maintaining optimal prostate health / H. Ballentine Carter and Gerald Secor Couzens.

Includes index.

Your healthy prostate. Prostate 101 : the basics ; Protecting your prostate ; Nutrition and men's optimal health -- Waterworks. Frequency problems ; Lower urinary tract symptoms : going to often day or night, dribbling and dripping, straining, hesitating, and leaking ; Treatment options for LUTS ; The overactive bladder -- Inflammation of the prostate. Prostatitis : if you don't understand it, reclassify it ; Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome : a painful condition with a new name and revolutionary ways to treat it -- Cancer. Prostate cancer ; Screening and diagnosing prostate cancer ; You've got (favorable risk) prostate cancer ; Active surveillance ; Surgery for prostate cancer ; Treating prostate cancer with radiation therapy ; Managing erectile dysfunction and incontinence after prostate cancer therapy ; If cancer comes back.

Provides an authoritative and definitive guide for men of all ages for better prostate health and longevity. Explains how to read test results and outlines all of the treatment options available for prostate cancer, from radiation therapy and radical prostatectomy to brachytherapy and Proactive Surveillance, an innovative approach designed to preserve the prostate for life.