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The Best News About Radiation Therapy: Everything You Need to Know About Your Treatment
Carol L. Kornmehl, M.D.
Nearly half of all cancer patients require radiation therapy. Not only do they have questions about their condition, but in addition, the process of radiation is the least understood area of medicine and makes patients feel the most vulnerable. Here, Dr. Carol Kornmehl guides patients through this intimidating process, explaining each step of the therapy and the results they can expect from their treatment. Focusing on both the technical and the emotional aspects of radiotherapy, she debunks common myths while reassuring readers about this essential but often misunderstood field of medicine.
Easy Homeschooling Techniques: The REAL How-To Guide
Lorraine Curry
"Bite-size, manageable chapters bursting with information.... something for everyone." - Shari Henry, author of Homeschooling: The Middle Years
Wives worry about their husband's health. Just as a woman and her spouse are reaching midlife, and may have the greatest demands on their time, with teenage children, mortgage, the highest productivity on the job, and the need to save for retirement, something happens. Perhaps a good friend gets cancer or keels over of a heart attack. Maybe the husband's father died in his mid-fifties and the wife thinks her husband may have inherited a predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Sometimes the husband seems changed, less happy, less satisfied. Sometimes his weight balloons and he can't seem to control it. Perhaps he goes in for a physical and comes home with the news that he has diabetes or hypertension.
The author, Dr. Kathleen Wilson, is a seasoned 51-year-old internal medicine doctor, trained at Mayo Clinic and practicing medicine at the large Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. From her vantage point on the frontlines of medicine she wrote Your Husband: Simplify Your Worry List. She is a wife of thirty years and wrote this for other wives so they too could understand their husband's health and how to maintain it. She also writes about common male afflictions at midlife, both emotional and physical. The cause and treatment of each problem is clearly explained in conversational language, and the most current thinking on preventive medicine strategies is outlined. The information is imparted with relevant stories to give this book emotional as well as factual impact.
• How men's brains change and evolve; increasing complexity into their 50s
• Masculinity and how it causes men to overestimate their health
• How to get a man to take care of himself
• How depression is atypical in men; how to diagnose and treat it
• When men lose their joy
• The latest theories on affairs and how to heal a marriage
• Prescription drug addiction
• Why some men drop dead before age 70; how it happens, what to look for
• The latest on how coronary disease forms and how heart attacks occur
• Why total cholesterol is not significant; the importance of HDL (the good kind) of cholesterol
• Explanation of homocysteine, highly sensitive C reactive protein, lipoprotein (a)
• CAT scans of the coronary arteries
• High blood pressure; how it affects men and what medicines are best for them
• Metabolic syndrome, the latest on insulin levels and the current understanding of diabetes
• How to help a man lose weight
• The latest information on causes of and treatment of impotence
• Andropause and testosterone levels
• Viagra and other pills for impotence
• The latest theory on how cancer develops and how it may change our diagnosis and treatment
Side-effects of the medicines most commonly prescribed to men
The first section, Regrets and Longings, goes into detail about the atypical depression that may plague men at midlife, anhedonia (loss of pleasure), irritability, and anger. It speaks of the derailment in a man's life such as an affair and the current theories on why affairs are so common. The author talks about the longings that come on a man as he reaches midlife and can neither remake earlier decisions nor relive earlier years. He may feel he has missed something and reach out for it. There is a cogent discussion of alcoholism and a sound approach to it when a person identifies the problem.
The second section is entitled Boot Hill: How to Keep Your Husband from Dropping Dead. Dr. Wilson says, if he has a low HDL, you have a problem. She then explains cholesterol and its various types, blood pressure, tests for heart disease, symptoms of heart disease and the concerns that a family history of premature coronary disease should raise. She gives the latest strategies for avoiding heart disease. The last chapter goes into detail on the detection and treatment of prostate and colon cancer.
The last section, Further Down Your Worry List, discusses up-to-date thinking on how to lose weight and maintain a healthy, good-looking body at midlife. Diabetes, a disease that is increasing in the population, constitutes another chapter. Dr. Wilson talks about the interesting phenomena of male andropause, analogous to menopause in women, and testosterone and growth hormone. The causes and treatment of erectile dysfunction are explained in clear terms and misconceptions are set aside. The urologic problems men begin to have at midlife are explained. The fascinating problems of sleep disturbances are laid out.
The book begins and ends with a typical husband, Charlie, who is just beginning to experience the symptoms of midlife, and sense his own mortality, but doesn't want to go to the doctor. The book is a way for Charlie's or any other wife to become aware of the medical facts as they pertain to midlife men, sort out when he has a serious pending problem, and make going to the doctor less of an ordeal for him. This is just about everything a wife needs to know to help her husband protect his health. It is short enough to be readable and doesn't pretend to cover every malady known to mankind. It is a personal book, from a doctor's personal viewpoint, and for a woman's most personal concerns about her husband.
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