Edited by Roger Kirby, John McConnell, John Fitzpatrick, Claus Roehrborn, and Peter Boyle. 566 pp., illustrated. Oxford, England, Isis Medical Media, 1996. (Distributed by Mosby, St. Louis.) $160. ISBN 1-899066-24-1.
With the graying of baby boomers has come increased interestin men's health, particularly prostate disease. Benign enlargementof the prostate begins in the fourth decade of life, culminatingin a prevalence of nearly 100 percent by the ninth decade. Enhancedpublic awareness, combined with targeted advertising by pharmaceuticalcompanies, has led to a huge increase in the number of men whoare evaluated for symptoms of prostatism. Concurrently, therehas been an explosion in surgical techniques and new drug therapiesfor benign prostatic hyperplasia. In 1995, physicians wrotemore than 3 million prescriptions for men reporting lower urinarytract . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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