ISBN: 9781861440921    Publisher: Need2Know Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 120        

Although prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in British men, those most at risk still know little about it. This book helps them know more but also shows they need not be unduly scared of it, so that they can live long and happy lives despite the disease. Women too - wives, partners, girlfriends, mothers - are as much concerned as the men they love and care for. This book shows what prostate cancer and other prostate problems mean, not only for the affected man, but also for them. Although the Internet offers masses of information about prostate cancer, some is hard to understand, some is misleading and some is confusing. Newspaper reports, often hyped, must be treated with caution too. By contrast, this book reliably, clearly and concisely says all you need to know in readily understandable form. David Loshak, though an experienced medical writer, is not a doctor; he writes in a non-technical way that typical people need, and discusses the often difficult emotional issues that arise, with sensitivity and empathy.
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David Loshak was a newspaper reporter in York and a Fleet Street foreign correspondent for two decades. In 1975, he became health correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and then editor of the medical magazine World Medicine which, although circulated only to doctors, was so much liked that it was often placed in waiting rooms for patients. David has been a freelance writer for over 20 years, covering every aspect of medical practice and research in Britain, Europe and North America. His main aim in this book is not only to enable men, and those close to them, to know more about prostate cancer, but also to understand it, deal with it and, above all, not be unduly scared of it, so that they can still live long and happy lives despite the disease.
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