Prostate Cancer Guide Reports More Men Opting For Radiation Therapy

Sarasota, FL, January 7 – The Executive Director of Sarasota’s Dattoli Cancer Center & Brachytherapy Research Institute, Donald Kaltenbach, announced publication of an updated Fifth Edition of his classic patient guidebook, Prostate Cancer: A Survivor’s Guide. With over 50,000 copies in print, the book has been expanded to include the most recent medical data on diagnosis and treatment of this disease, including 4-Dimensional Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (4D IG-IMRT) and Dynamic Adaptive Radiotherapy (DART). The book reports impressive results achieved at the Dattoli Cancer Center by Kaltenbach’s associate, Dr. Michael J. Dattoli, whose 14-year study of high risk prostate cancer patients was published in the American Cancer Society’s journal, Cancer (August 1, 2007).

According to Kaltenbach, the Survivor’s Guide is the first book to report that excellent rates of tumor control (greater than 80%) are possible even in high risk prostate cancer patients by utilizing a combination treatment protocol of external beam radiation (4D IG-IMRT) followed by brachytherapy. A former patient himself, Mr. Kaltenbach was treated in 1990 with brachytherapy, a noninvasive procedure using radioactive seed implants. “With increased awareness of advanced non-surgical therapies, more men are choosing not to go under the knife, because they want to preserve their quality of life by avoiding the risks of surgical complications such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction.”

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