Questions for Your Doctor A prostate cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. Use these questions to guide conversations with your doctor and healthcare team so you can be empowered with the right information. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, it's important to understand more about the disease and your options. Our Questions for Your Doctor series provides a number of questions for you to discuss with your healthcare team.Here are some additional tips for communicating with your healthcare team:Find a doctor that you trust and who will work to understand your needs, values, and goals for treatment.A shared decision-making approach will help you feel more included and empowered during this process and as you make treatment decisions.Take a family member or friend to your appointments. That person can take notes, remind you to ask questions, and help you understand the answers.Important information can be recorded in our Newly Diagnosed Worksheet. Worksheets: "Questions for your Doctor" Series Part of what makes being a patient so difficult is not knowing which questions to ask about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and next steps. Download and print these questionnaires, then bring them to your next doctor's appointment to help begin and guide the conversation. Newly Diagnosed Questions about diagnosis, treatment, living with the disease, and seeking second opinions on test results. Advanced Prostate Cancer If you, or someone you love, has advanced prostate cancer, these questions are to help you make a plan with your healthcare team to best manage the disease. Chemotherapy If chemotherapy is a treatment option for you, use this list of questions to ask your doctor so you have the information you need. Clinical Trials A clinical trial may be an important option for your prostate cancer treatment. Use this list of questions to ask your doctor or a clinical trial coordinator, so you have the information you need. Hormone Therapy If hormone therapy is a treatment option for you, use this list of questions to ask your doctor so you have the information you need. Key Topics: "Ask the Doctor" Guides The "Ask the Doctor" resource is a four-part video and print education series that reviews major concepts related to risks, treatment, and survivorship of prostate cancer. Download these printed one-pagers will help you gain a better understanding of key topics in prostate cancer, and help guide conversations with your doctor. Ask the Doctor: Screening for High-Risk Individuals (PDF) A one-page overview of high-risk patients and early detection from the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor Series: Biomarkers & Family History (PDF) A one-page overview of how biomarkers and family history help identify individuals who have higher risk of prostate cancer, from the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor: Shared Decision Making (PDF) This one-pager discusses how doctors can empower patients with clear communication and information sharing, as part of the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor Series: Living with Prostate Cancer (PDF) This one-pager discusses survivorship (the process of living with prostate cancer after completing primary treatment), as part of the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. 'Ask the Doctor' series - video materials The "Ask the Doctor" series also includes video interviews where Dr. Arnold Bullock, Urologist and Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Lannis Hall, Director of Radiation Oncology (both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri) explain key concepts. Screening for high-risk men Biomarkers and family history Shared decision making Living with prostate cancer
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, it's important to understand more about the disease and your options. Our Questions for Your Doctor series provides a number of questions for you to discuss with your healthcare team.Here are some additional tips for communicating with your healthcare team:Find a doctor that you trust and who will work to understand your needs, values, and goals for treatment.A shared decision-making approach will help you feel more included and empowered during this process and as you make treatment decisions.Take a family member or friend to your appointments. That person can take notes, remind you to ask questions, and help you understand the answers.Important information can be recorded in our Newly Diagnosed Worksheet.
Worksheets: "Questions for your Doctor" Series Part of what makes being a patient so difficult is not knowing which questions to ask about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and next steps. Download and print these questionnaires, then bring them to your next doctor's appointment to help begin and guide the conversation. Newly Diagnosed Questions about diagnosis, treatment, living with the disease, and seeking second opinions on test results. Advanced Prostate Cancer If you, or someone you love, has advanced prostate cancer, these questions are to help you make a plan with your healthcare team to best manage the disease. Chemotherapy If chemotherapy is a treatment option for you, use this list of questions to ask your doctor so you have the information you need. Clinical Trials A clinical trial may be an important option for your prostate cancer treatment. Use this list of questions to ask your doctor or a clinical trial coordinator, so you have the information you need. Hormone Therapy If hormone therapy is a treatment option for you, use this list of questions to ask your doctor so you have the information you need.
Key Topics: "Ask the Doctor" Guides The "Ask the Doctor" resource is a four-part video and print education series that reviews major concepts related to risks, treatment, and survivorship of prostate cancer. Download these printed one-pagers will help you gain a better understanding of key topics in prostate cancer, and help guide conversations with your doctor. Ask the Doctor: Screening for High-Risk Individuals (PDF) A one-page overview of high-risk patients and early detection from the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor Series: Biomarkers & Family History (PDF) A one-page overview of how biomarkers and family history help identify individuals who have higher risk of prostate cancer, from the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor: Shared Decision Making (PDF) This one-pager discusses how doctors can empower patients with clear communication and information sharing, as part of the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others. Ask the Doctor Series: Living with Prostate Cancer (PDF) This one-pager discusses survivorship (the process of living with prostate cancer after completing primary treatment), as part of the "Ask the Doctor" educational series. View it online, or download it to your computer for printing at home or sending to others.
'Ask the Doctor' series - video materials The "Ask the Doctor" series also includes video interviews where Dr. Arnold Bullock, Urologist and Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Lannis Hall, Director of Radiation Oncology (both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri) explain key concepts. Screening for high-risk men Biomarkers and family history Shared decision making Living with prostate cancer
