On March 2, 2011, Dr. Larry Goldenberg, an award-winning Canadian researcher, pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education. Dr. Goldenberg authored one of the first books to explain prostate cancer treatment options in layman’s terms. The Intelligent Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Goldenberg talks about how the 21st century will be a century of aging, and how the Men’s Health Initiative will help people not only live long, but live healthy.
Are you interested in more about this area? There are open access resources available online selected by UBC Librarians
National Library of Medicine - http://resources.library.ubc.ca/627/
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - http://resources.library.ubc.ca/462/
CANCERLIT - http://resources.library.ubc.ca/221/
BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/
UBC Health Wiki - http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/
Questions for discussion
What is the biggest social barrier to people getting diagnosed?
What do you think is the best educational tool, in terms of prostate cancer education?
Do you think Movember is effective in closing the social barrier/taboos surrounding prostate cancer?
What sparked your interest in prostate cancer?
Useful online resources
Prostate Cancer Canada - http://www.prostatecancer.ca/
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Prostate Cancer - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001418/
Canadian Cancer Society – Information, Diagnoses and Treatments
Prostate Cancer Foundation - http://www.pcf.org
MedicineNet, Inc. – Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD Network - http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/article.htm#_Toc498458212
What Are Some UBC Resources That Might Be Helpful for understanding Prostate Cancer?
Prostate cancer methods and protocols edited by Pamela J. Russell, Paul Jackson, and Elizabeth A. Kingsley [UBC online resource]
Challenges in prostate cancer edited by Winsor Bowsher and Adam Carter [UBC Woodward Library - WJ752 .C493 2006]
Prostate cancer edited by Marc S. Ernstoff, John A. Heaney, Richard E. Peschel [UBC Woodward Library - WJ752 .P7684 1998]
Prostate cancer: making survival decisions by Sylvan Meyer and Seymour C. Nash [UBC Woodward Library - WJ752 .M494 1994]
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