Why wives, kids, and family shouldn’t push Dad to have prostate cancer surgery!

"Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery" is filled with cartoons and simple diagrams and is written for the average layperson in easy-to-understand style.

Prostate cancer surgery gives men smaller penises, impotence, other forms of sexual dysfunction, makes all men sterile, and can cause urinary strictures.

“Smaller penises result from undergoing the radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer,” warns Dr. Bradley Hennenfent, author of the new book, Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery, and “men are often angry that they weren’t even warned about this side effect.”

"I can personally testify that I lost about an inch of penile length,” says Aubrey Pilgrim, who underwent a radical prostatectomy, “and it takes a lot of stimulation to have an orgasm and of course it's not the same." The book includes diagrams that realistically illustrate the damage done by the radical prostatectomy.

“The real lesson,” says Dr. Hennenfent, “is not only that the radical prostatectomy results in smaller penises, but that the radical prostatectomy has failed to extend overall survival in two randomized controlled trials.” Better ways to treat prostate cancer are detailed in the book. The book quotes Dr. Gary Onik, a cryoablation expert, who predicts “...the death of the radical prostatectomy as a treatment for prostate cancer” within five years.

Biblio Distribution (800-462-6420) distributes the book. It’s $19.95, a trade paperback, 334 pages, 34 chapters, and was published January 15, 2005. Twenty-seven illustrations and cartoons are included within the book, which also includes an extensive index. Published by Roseville Books. ISBN Number: 0-9717454-1-2.