Adam's Burden: An Explorer's Personal Odyssey through Prostate Cancer - Hardcover

Neider, Charles

9781568332390: Adam's Burden: An Explorer's Personal Odyssey through Prostate Cancer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568332394 ISBN 13: 9781568332390

Publisher: Madison Books, 2001

A three-time Antarctic explorer who nearly perished in a helicopter crash at 12,000 feet on Mt. Erebus, Charles Neider tackles cancer's inhospitable terrain with the same straightforward courage, tenacity, and curiosity that he brings to his explorations.

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About the Author:

Charles Neider (1915-2001) was the author of The Grotto Berg and the editor of Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict and Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities, among many other books.

From Library Journal:

At age 79, author, Mark Twain scholar and editor, and explorer Neider (The Grotto Berg) was diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa). Neider wanted to know as much as possible about his disease so that he could participate in making decisions that affected his health and survival. This memoir is the result of his persistently inquisitive approach, which led him to interview doctors as well as a half-dozen friends and relatives who had undergone various therapies for PCa. Selecting the best therapy for the disease is a complex decision for a patient to make. There are quality-of-life issues (incontinence, impotence, and morbidities associated with any given therapeutic model) that each PCa patient must consider for himself. Neider's clear, down-to-earth, informative, and compassionate memoir also provides a no-holds-barred portrait of the medical profession good and bad. It will make a fine addition to consumer health collections that also have Ralph Berberich's Hit Below the Belt (LJ 3/15/01) and Saralee and Robert Fine's Prostate Cancer (LJ 9/1/99), which are also helpful in guiding readers through the morass of PCa therapies and its associated jargon (Gleason scores and PSA readings, for example). [Unfortunately, Neider lost his battle with cancer on July 4, 2001. Ed.] James Swanton, Harlem Hosp., New Yor.
- James Swanton, Harlem Hosp., New York
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