| Prostate Cancer Treatment Options Improve Survival | | | | Many therapies are being tested, including preventive |
| Rates | | | | androgen therapy. Most invasive therapies like |
| As treatment options improve, the survival rates for | | | | surgery and radiation are not considered unless there |
| prostate cancer also improve. This is true for all | | | | are rapid changes in the PIN biopsies. |
| stages except distant stage (metastasized) prostate | | | | Early detection of prostate cancer has the added |
| cancer (National Cancer Institute Prostate Cancer | | | | advantage of opening the door for chemoprevention |
| Trends). | | | | as one prostate cancer treatment option. |
| When prostate cancer is detected at the earliest | | | | Chemoprevention involves changes in the patient's |
| stages, patients have the greatest chance for high | | | | lifestyle to avoid or postpone the progress of cancer. |
| survival rates. | | | | One study using green tea extract found 90% |
| One of the best tests for early detection is a biopsy | | | | prevention of prostate cancer in patients with HGPIN |
| for PIN or prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia. PIN is | | | | after one year of treatment. Drug studies have |
| generally considered the first detectable form of | | | | found 20-25% prevention of prostate cancer during |
| precancerous cells in the prostate, and can lead to | | | | five-year studies. |
| adenocarcinoma. This test is independent from a PSA | | | | Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer |
| screening of the blood. | | | | in men after skin cancer. It is diagnosed in |
| The PIN biopsy removes cells from different areas of | | | | approximately 220,000 new patients and kills almost |
| the prostate and examines them for areas of | | | | 30,000 each year in the United States alone. |
| increased cells or cellular proliferation that resemble | | | | African-American men have the highest rate of |
| cancer, and "architectural" patterns like tufting, | | | | prostate cancer in the world, running 60% higher |
| neuroendocrine and mucinous patterns. HGPIN | | | | than other American men (American Cancer Society, |
| spreads slowly through the prostatic ducts similar to | | | | SEER National Cancer Institute). |
| the development of prostatic cancer. | | | | Prostate cancer has been detected in men as young |
| If the biopsy results are high grade PIN or HGPIN, it | | | | as 20 years old and by age 80 at least 80% of men |
| is considered one of the most reliable predictors of | | | | have this cancer. Because it can take decades to |
| prostate cancer at this time. | | | | proliferate, considering chemoprevention as part of a |
| What Are The Prostate Cancer Treatment Options | | | | patient's prostate cancer treatment options offers |
| With High Grade PIN? | | | | more pro-active and positive pathways to health. |
| Most researchers recommend follow-up biopsies at | | | | Men should consult with their primary health care |
| three to six month intervals for several years, then | | | | provider for their best prostate cancer treatment |
| every year for life. Additional treatment is based on | | | | options and early detection procedures. |
| gathering information about the patient's individual risk. | | | | |