Tips + Tools
Contents of This Section
- What cancer cannot do
- Major US-based prostate cancer web sites and organizations
- Major ex-US prostate cancer web sites and organizations
- Views from the “other side”: personal reflections about prostate cancer from two urological oncologists
- Tips
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The “top 10″ facts you need to know about prostate cancer
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How to pick a prostate cancer surgeon (by Arnon Krongrad, MD)
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How to select your brachytherapist (by Michael F. Sarosdy, MD)
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How to pick an external beam radiation specialist
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How to pick a cryotherapy specialist
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How to pick a medical oncologist
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Tools
- Prognostic tools
- Finding out about clinical trials
Summary Overview
There are lots of useful things that you can do to seek out the best possible treatment and to really understand exactly what is going on if you find that things are getting more complicated that you were hoping for.
In this section we plan to provide all sorts of tips and tools that may be helpful to you. In particular, we have tried to give you some guidance about how to think about finding the best possible physicians to work with you and give you the very best treatment. This may or may not be possible for you, depending on things like where you live, your health insurance coverage, and your financial resources, but wherever you live and whatever your resources, you should always do your best to find the best possible doctors you can to help you if you have cancer.
If you know of other useful tips and tools from your own experience that you would like to share, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Your experience may be really valuable to others.
