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1) Project Summary

2) Collaborators

2) Bibliography

3) Credits

Understanding Your Prostate

1) What your prostate is and what it does

2) Where your prostate is located

3) What can happen to your prostate

1) It's not easy to understand prostate cancer

2) Here's the bad news and the good news about prostate cancer

3) It's not easy to choose the best treatment. Even the doctors don't always agree.

4) What does the best research say to do?

1) So, as you can see, there are a number of things to think about.

2) Get as much information and support as you need.

What Your Test Results Mean

1) What your test results mean

2) The PSA test

3) The GRADE of the cancer

4) The STAGE of the cancer

5) What the STAGE means

1) The PSA, the Grade and the Stage

1) Other Concerns you and your doctor may talk about

1) What other people may have to say

Treatment Choices

1) Treatment choices

1) What happens

2) How this treatment can help

3) How this treatment may cause problems

4) Watchful waiting

1) What happens

2) How this treatment can help

3) How this treatment may cause problems

4) Surgery

1) What happens

2) How these treatment can help

3) How these treatment may cause problems

4) Other things to think about

5) Radiation

1) Treatment choices for early stage prostate cancer

1) Permanent side effects of treatment choices

1) Newer treatments

Things to Ask Your Doctor

1) Things to ask your doctor

After Your Treatment

1) Making sure the treatment has worked

1) What we have not talked about so far: LATER stage prostate cancer

2) What we have talked about so far: EARLY stage prostate cancer

3) What we have not talked about so far: LATER stage prostate cancer

1) A place to record your test results

Education & Support Groups

1) Learning from others

A Choice & a Journey

1) We hope you now understand what you need to know to make the treatment choice right for you

Order Materials

1) Materials ordering options