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Click on Prostate Cancer and this is what comes up:
The first section is the Treatment section and, for now, this is the category we’re most interested in. As we look at the Treatment section we see: Prostate Cancer Treatment [patient] [health professional] Start off by clicking the [patient] version. I’ve included the first page of the patient version on prostate cancer below. I’ve highlighted the menu on the left which lists the topics that are covered in this review.
· General Information About Prostate Cancer · Stages of Prostate Cancer · Recurrent Prostate Cancer · Treatment Option Overview · Treatment Options by Stage · Treatment Options for Recurrent Prostate Cancer · Changes to the Summary Just reading this patient version should give you a nice review and of the issues we discussed before such as staging, treatment options, etc. After you've read and digested the patient version, you may decide to read the version designated for health professionals. This will obviously be more detailed and technical but take your time, read it slowly, and you should be able to get the gist of it. Although I won’t reproduce the whole version here, let’s take a look at the first page of the health professional version. We’ll get to it by clicking on the health professional version box. Here I’ve pointed our red arrow at the box to click.
Here is the first page of the health professional version:
As you can see there is more detail and scientific data presented in the health professional version. There is a new section on Cellular Classification (red arrow) and many of the statements are documented with references to articles in the medical literature which can be found in footnotes further down. An example of a reference to a footnote can also be seen (blue arrow). If you would ever like to read any article in its entirety, the footnotes list what journal an article was published in and when. With this information you can visit the closest medical library, find the journal, and read the entire article. Or, as you’ll learn how to do in a later chapter, you can look up the article online in the Pub Med database. If any of the medical terms you come across in reading these reviews are confusing you can look them up in this glossary of medical research terms:
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