The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Prostate Enlargement: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age

This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to prostate enlargement, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on prostate enlargement. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Prostate Enlargement: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Prostate Enlargement; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Prostate Enlargement; Chapter 5. Books on Prostate Enlargement; Chapter 6. Multimedia on Prostate Enlargement; Chapter 7. Periodicals and News on Prostate Enlargement; Chapter 8. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. NIH Consensus Statement on Urinary Incontinence in Adults; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: Benign prostatic hypertrophy, Prostatic hyperplasia, Prostatic hypertrophy.