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Prostate Cancer Signs and Symptoms

lginger — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:12:58 +0000

Prostate cancer signs and symptoms are categorized into two groups:

I. Localized (involves prostrate gland)

- Immediate need to urinate - Frequent urination-day and night - Stream of urine is weak and decreased in size - Blood in the urine - Pain during ejaculation - Difficulty to urinate

II. Generalized (involves sections the cancer has spread)

- Weight loss - Low Red Blood Cell (RBC) - Constant tiredness - Bone pain (frequent symptom of cancer that has spread) - Urinary clog and/or retention - Aching pain in the groin, hips, lower back and thighs

So, now is the time to think things over and be more careful in our diets, lifestyle, regular check ups or regular screening for common cancers-an early detection of any abnormality can lead to prevention of severe cancers and easier treatment.

If you think you have some or most of the symptoms listed above, this does not necessarily mean that you already have prostate cancer. It could be caused by other prostate problems. Thus, an immediate visit to a doctor is indeed encouraged.

Keeping in mind all of the symptoms and signs of prostate cancer will make one have the greater chance of detecting such disease early.

Having this knowledge about prostate cancer draws the line between men who do not have any idea on how this type of disease can be detected and what it can inflict and those men who are plainly and painfully clueless. Handling this disease will be more manageable as long as one is aware of such disease’s signs and symptoms. So now, this excludes you from one of the many men who are not even aware of the possibilities of acquiring a menacing prostate cancer.

Prostate Cancer Detection

lginger — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:48:04 +0000

Many men are not aware about having the possibility of acquiring Prostate Cancer. Some may not even know what a prostrate cancer is and what could be the symptoms that tell them they already hit the dot, do you? If you agree to what I have just said, then, this piece of article is just right for you. Otherwise, just read along and this can add to your knowledge about this type of disease.

The shape of the prostate gland is like a walnut that can be divided into two parts, which are called the left lobe and the right lobe. It is located just below the urinary bladder, which surrounds the upper part of the urethra. The urethra is a narrow tube passage for the urine from the bladder and semen from the sex glands out through the penis. The sex hormones stimulate the prostate gland’s activity and it also serves the purpose of replacing the prostate cells as they wear out.

Old men aging from 60 to 65 are tested on whether they prostate cancer, and more than 70% have the disease. However, study shows that the cause of prostate cancer is still unknown. This disease grows relatively slow compared to all other types of cancers. Men may not even discover that they already have it, to which many men with this kind of cancer will not die from it BUT with it.

Prostate Cancer: What is it?

lginger — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:12:04 +0000

Prostate cancer is one of the most wide-spread diseases among men of a certain age. This disease is developed when cancer cells form in the prostate tissue.

The prostate

The prostate is part of the male reproductive organ. It is located below the gall bladder, in front of the rectum. This part produces a particular fluid which is a part of the semen.

As men grow older, there is a probability that the prostate will grow bigger and block the urethra or bladder. The urethra is a tube-like internal part of the body which empties urine from the bladder.

Once the prostate grows larger than usual, it may cause a man difficulties with urinating and the condition may also affect his sexual abilities.

A form of benign tumor that will involve the prostate glands is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia or BPH. This occurs when the prostate glands grow larger than usual. There could be a need for surgery to correct or remove this form of benign tumor. The signs characterizing BPH are the same symptoms that you will see in a prostate cancer patient.

Prostate Cancer Treatments

lginger — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:05:09 +0000

If a patient has been diagnosed during the early stages of the disease, doctors are able to stop it before it gets any worse.

First, the person can undergo surgery to have it removed. The person will feel some pain when it is over but this is seen as normal. The side effect of this is the person will likely be impotent and suffer from urinary incontinence.

Another way to treat this is through radiation therapy. Though this is painless procedure, the side effect of going through with this will let the person experience diarrhea, uncomfortable urination, hair loss in the pelvic area and in cases making the patient impotent.

Hormone therapy can also work since this too is a painless procedure. The downside to this is that the person will become impotent and experience hot flashes from time to time. Estrogen is sometimes used in hormone therapy. The side effects of which are vomiting, nausea, swelling or tenderness in the patient’s breasts.

A new way of treating prostate cancer is through proton therapy. It uses high energy proton particles that are produced by a synchrotron or an accelerator to destroy the tumor without harming the surrounding tissues.

This is similar to chemotherapy and hormone therapy which is a painless and bloodless procedure. Unlike the other two, more than 700 patients have agreed to take part in this treatment and none have reported of any side effects after the procedure was completed.

The patient can choose to have this done on an outpatient basis so the person can still perform one’s daily routine. It will take 7 weeks for it to be finished.

Medical science has improved through the years. This has increased the survival rate of a person to close to 100%. By being able to detect this early, more men can be saved from this disease.

Since this problem only happens when a man reaches the age of 50, the individual should be prepared to face this disease during the early stages by having an annual PSA screening test and a Digital Rectal Exam.

Facts About Prostate Cancer

lginger — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:56:53 +0000

Men in general are most likely to have problems in the prostate when these individuals grow older. This is the information doctors found after doing research from men who are 50 years and over. There are 3 common problems that men face. These are namely:

prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia), inflammation (prostatitis), and prostate cancer.

Among the three, prostate cancer is the usual occurrence in men. The disease starts when cells in the prostate grow rapidly and these spread out to other parts of the person’s body. Doctors call this spreading as metastasis. Since most of these cells are not harmful, there is no cause yet for alarm.

When these get bigger, these are called tumors. If these tumors settle in the person’s lymph node, which could be confirmed during a medical examination, there is a high chance that the person has already developed this disease.

Science has not yet discovered what causes men to have prostate cancer. Annually, this only ranks second to lung cancer as the highest number of fatalities among men. The first signs of a person that has this disease can be seen in the color of the urine, the more times that the person has to urinate and dribbling or hesitancy of urine is experienced.