What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer: Prostate Cancer

About the Author

The Merrill brothers, Dr Merrill's father and uncle, were pioneers of the Seventh Day Adventist Colony in Eel Rock, California in 1933. Eel Rock is located on the banks of the wild and scenic North Fork of the Eel River, about 20 miles upriver from its' junction with the South Fork at Dyersville.
Because of the educational limitations of this sparsely populated rural area, the Merrill's ultimately moved to Myers Flat on the more populous South Fork of the Eel River in 1948. Dr Merrill graduated from South Fork High school in Miranda in 1955. He subsequently graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with honor and a degree in Physiology four years later; when Dr Merrill graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School; he became the first student from South Fork High School to become a MD.
After completed his internship and a year of surgical residency in California, Dr Merrill moved to Minnesota where he performed his Urology Residency under the late Donald Creevy at the University Of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis. After completing his residency, Dr Merrill performed a NIH special fellowship in Urology at the University of Minnesota and subsequently joined the staff of the Urology department at that institution.
In 1973 Dr Merrill was recruited by the University of California Davis to administer their Urology training program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez California. Dr Merrill served as Chief of Urology in that institution until its closure for seismic considerations in 1991.
During his career at the VA Dr Merrill was responsible for the care of thousands of men with prostate cancer and has performed hundreds of radical retropubic prostatectomies. He has also taught 42 residents how to perform the procedure. Dr Merrill also has worked extensively in the field of impotence and was the pioneer surgeon for the Mentor inflatable penile prosthesis as well as several other implantable medical devices.
In this eBook Dr. Merrill shares the knowledge gained from his 35 plus years treating males with prostate cancer with the reader. It is Dr Merrill's firm belief that no one should die of prostate cancer in the 21st century. Dr Merrill also believes that the key to beating this potentially lethal cancer is early diagnosis and aggressive surgical removal of the cancer before it has spread outside the confines of the prostate gland. Younger cancer free males should use the information in this book to be sure that they are being properly screened for prostate cancer at appropriate intervals.
Men who have developed prostate cancer should use the information in this book to familiarize themselves with the various options for treatment as well as the pros and cons of the most common choices for treating prostate cancer. It is essential that the male with prostate cancer have this information at his finger tips when he discusses his treatment options with his urologist or radiotherapist