The urologist survivor

[Guest guest]

The Virginia Prostate Cancer Coalition has just posted on our website a

document written by two prominent urologists, H. Lange MD and

Schellhammer MD who are also survivors.

From the introduction:

We wrote this article to transmit to urologists and patients with

prostate cancer certain subjective events surrounding the diagnosis and

treatment of this cancer. These efforts could be useful for several

reasons. First we both had radical prostatectomies several years ago and

were

emotionally and in one case practically involved in each other's

surgical process (i.e. PHL

performed the radical prostatectomy on PFS). Second we are urologists

whose research and

practice efforts have principally centered on prostate cancer. Finally,

as will be elaborated

subsequently, we have been close friends for many years and thus have

had frequent occasions to

reflect and discuss many facets of prostate cancer both before and after

our own experiences.

We will individually describe the experiences surrounding our diagnoses,

surgeries, and

subsequent events, using them as discussion points for well accepted and

recently revealed

information about the disease. Finally we will present our mutual

insights about these

experiences.

For the entire document:

http://www.vapcacoalition.org/Docs/ViewsFromTheOtherSide.pdf

Please share this link with anyone who you feel might be interested.

Kathy Meade

Arlington Educational Consulting

http://www.vapcacoalition.org/

http://www.naspcc.org/

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