Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer

by Michael Korda (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $19.85

  In the autumn of 1994, Michaeal Korda was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. For several years he had been examined, tested and given medication, always with the assurance that everything was alright - until it wasn't. But the discovery of the actual cancer was only the beginning of his ordeal. This autobiography relates not only what he and his wife, Margaret, went through, but, more importantly, what they learned in the process. With frankness, Korda writes of overcoming incontinence and impotence, the truth about the various treatments, how tumours are graded and the reality of the numbers . Switching between Korda's personal experiences - including the operation itself - and stories about doctors, patients and recovery groups, this book is informative, and above all, hopeful.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.12

  Prostate cancer is the male equivalent of breast cancer - the number of victims is almost identical - though it receives considerably less attention. This painfully honest book is an attempt to break through the barrier of silence and isolation to write about prostate cancer - surviving it successfully - with a frankness found lacking in every other book on the subject. It is one man's story and every case of cancer is as individual as the person whose life it threatens; yet everybody who has had it shares certain fears, experiences and doubts. It is a kind of all-male club and membership is not dependant on race, creed or sexual preference. Michael Korda joined the club, unexpectedly, at 2:30 in the afternoon of Thursday 20 October, 1994. This is his story.