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Praise for Conquer Prostate Cancer

CPC cover final 718 CONQUER PROSTATE CANCER
How Medicine, Faith, Love and Sex
Can Renew Your Life

by Rabbi Ed Weinsberg, with Dr. Robert Carey

An inspiring physical, spiritual and emotional guide for prostate cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones.

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"Rabbi Weinsberg draws on his own medical ordeal to bring guidance and comfort to others."  -- Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

CONQUER PROSTATE CANCER empowers patients to face diagnosis with dignity, explore their options realistically, and tackle recovery with optimism and determination. As the author and his wife share the most intimate details of their prostate cancer journey, readers learn how to:

  • Become an active member of their medical team
  • Reduce pain and stress and renew vitality
  • Overcome impotence and incontinence
  • Enhance intimate relationships
  • Draw strength from faith, family, and friends

The first book to emphasize robotic surgery for prostate cancer from an informed layman’s perspective, CONQUER PROSTATE CANCER discusses the latest research and advances in treatment, and profiles nineteen other patients who chose various treatment options.

"This humane book successfully wrestles with the concerns of those confronted by prostate cancer." -- Dr. Robert Butler, M.D., Pulitzer prizewinning author of "Why Survive? Being Old in America" and "The Longevity Revolution"

Prominent robotic surgeon Dr. Robert Carey discusses medical and patient-care concerns and the author's wife provides a running commentary, sharing her thoughts about how she and her family coped with the disease and its effects.

With its low-key humor, positive and hopeful tone, and well-researched facts, this book is a powerful tool for surviving prostate cancer.

  • Published October, 2008
  • List Price: $18.95
  • Paperback, 328 pp.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND MEDICAL EXPERTS

The author, Rabbi Ed Weinsberg, is a prostate cancer survivor and rabbi with a doctorate in gerontology from Columbia University. Contributing author Dr. Robert Carey is a prominent urologist and robotic surgeon with a Ph.D. from MIT. Dr. David Kauder, the book’s medical advisor, has been a urologist for the past 30 years and is a past president of the Massachusetts Association of Practicing Urologists.

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Rabbi Ed

Dr. Carey

Dr. Kauder

Praise for Conquer Prostate Cancer

  • "Rabbi Weinsberg draws on his own medical ordeal to bring guidance and comfort to others."
    — Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

    "Offers a host of ‘stressbusters’ to help recover from serious illnesses like prostate cancer with relative ease." — Edward Hallowell, M.D., author and psychiatrist specializing in anxiety disorders, and frequent guest in national media.

    "A real help for those having prostate cancer surgery." — Peggy Huddleston, author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques"

    "A great resource for both patients and healthcare providers alike . . . a rallying cry for everyone who has been touched directly or indirectly by prostate cancer." — Vipul Patel, M.D., Director of Urological Oncology, Florida Hospital Cancer Institute

    "The author applies his gentle wit . . . to ease the distress of others beset with prostate cancer."
    — Stanley Smisskiss, Founding Chairman, American Cancer Society Foundation.

    "A real knack for telling a true story that is at once serious but upbeat."
    — Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, co-editor of Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul

    "It is just the type of book you want to share with others because it is written with candor, humor, a holistic approach to healing rendered most credible through personal experience with the subject and useful input from medical experts."
    — Rev. Dr. Marvin R. Wilson

    “Crammed full of laughter, stories, remarkable frankness and great advice . . . provides invaluable assistance to every man and woman facing prostate cancer or any adversity.” — Jerry Perisho, author of I Barf, Therefore I am: A Sensitive Comedy Writer’s Relationship with Cancer

    “My friend and I read Conquer Prostate Cancer a few days before he had robotic prostate cancer surgery. The book is so honest and well-written that we had a much better understanding of the surgery and what would follow. We are truly thankful for this book, which made such a difference for us!" — Pam Daniel, Editorial Director, Sarasota Magazine

    "Provides a perspective that is helpful to all who are touched by prostate cancer." — Dale Peterson, M.D., host of Building Health by Design