Best Prostate Cancer Treatment

Any man, spouse, relative, or friend of a man facing prostate cancer should read this book. Here Robert Ferre explains in precious detail his experience receiving proton therapy for prostate cancer in 2016. So impressed was he that he wrote this (and two subsequent books) about the technology, how it works, how to pay for it, who¿s doing it, and what the future holds. This book is specifically about proton therapy and does not cover other modalities except for brief comparisons, in...
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Any man, spouse, relative, or friend of a man facing prostate cancer should read this book. Here Robert Ferre explains in precious detail his experience receiving proton therapy for prostate cancer in 2016. So impressed was he that he wrote this (and two subsequent books) about the technology, how it works, how to pay for it, who¿s doing it, and what the future holds. This book is specifically about proton therapy and does not cover other modalities except for brief comparisons, in which protons come out the winner. Here you find far more detail about the nature and use of protons than any other non-medical book on the subject. Being in full color allows diagrams to show the intensity of the various forms of radiation. This second edition covers these and other topics:--Why your urologist never mentions proton therapy.¿--Proof that proton therapy gives the best result with the fewest side effects.¿--How proton therapy outperforms x-ray radiation such as IMRT. ¿--The author¿s personal description of receiving proton therapy treatments.¿--Recent technological advances in proton therapy not covered in older books.¿--A special program that pays 80% of the cost of proton therapy for those on Medicare.¿--How to deal with insurance companies and their resistance to proton therapy.¿--The amazing physics of proton therapy and pencil beam scanning. ¿--The superiority of pencil beam scanning for 80% of all cancers. ¿--More than 150 full-color photos and illustrations.¿--Obstacles and resistance to proton therapy. ¿--The future of proton therapy, compact equipment, lower prices, wider availability.¿--Proton therapy centers currently in operation, and those planned or under construction.Robert Ferre wrote this because of his own experience in which his doctors failed to tell him the truth about proton therapy. Cancer patients need to do their own research and become familiar with proton therapy. Then, they may need to buck their doctor¿s recommendation for surgery or x-rays and find their own way to the best proton therapy center, of which there are currently twenty-eight in the United States.