E. David Crawford, MD, and David Mobley, MD, FACS, presented “Prostate Cancer: Expert Advice for Helping Your Loved One” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in December 2023.
How to cite: Crawford, E. David. MD, and Mobley, David, MD, FACS. “Prostate Cancer: Expert Advice for Helping Your Loved Onel.” December 2023. Accessed Dec 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/prostate-cancer-expert-advice-for-helping-your-loved-one/
Prostate Cancer: Expert Advice for Helping Your Loved One
David Crawford, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Grand Rounds in Urology, sits down to talk about how patients and their loved ones can best navigate a prostate cancer diagnosis with David Mobley, MD, FACS, co-author of the book, “Prostate Cancer: Expert Advice for Helping Your Loved One.” They begin by referencing how the idea for the book came about between Dr. Mobley and Contributing Editor for Grand Rounds in Urology, Neil H. Baum, MD, after they saw a similar book intended for the partners of women with breast cancer. They discuss how Dr. Mobley and Dr. Baum, teamed up to address the questions and concerns patients and their partners often have that medical doctors rarely have time to answer in detail.
Dr. Mobley then discusses how Dr. Richard G. Key, MD, a specialist in treating the psychological effects of cancer diagnoses, joined the author team to provide guidance to the man and his partner on how to handle the emotional and psychological symptoms of prostate cancer. They discuss how the inclusion of Dr. Key’s expertise elevated the book by humanizing each case.
Finally, Dr. Crawford and Dr. Mobley discuss how the book relays information in the context of the experience of a couple navigating prostate cancer treatment. The format of each chapter is a vignette of a real prostate cancer patient, followed by an explanation for the questions raised in the vignette, and ending with further questions a man and his partner may have.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Researcher-physician E. David Crawford, MD, Jack A. Vickers Director of Prostate Research and Professor of Urology at the University of California, San Diego, has devoted his career in medicine to educating the public about men's health issues and finding effective techniques and procedures to address prostate cancer, the most common malignancy affecting men in the United States.
