| Prostate cancer is a very common problem with men | | | | be in good condition. Most surgery patients are men |
| over the age of 80 and it starts becoming frequent | | | | between 50 and 70 years of age who do not seem |
| with men over 50. By the time they are 80, almost | | | | to have extensive cancer damage. There are some |
| half will have some form of prostate cancer which is | | | | side effects involved with this procedure, mostly |
| not noticeable. Even though it is dangerous, just like | | | | related to erectile dysfunctions and minor urination |
| any other cancer type, prostate cancer is very | | | | problems. However, modern techniques greatly |
| seldom the cause of death for the men who have it. | | | | reduce the side effects and the success of surgery |
| Although this is such a common illness, doctors are | | | | is high.Choosing a hormone therapy is another option. |
| still uncertain of the precise causes for prostate | | | | This treatment does not kill the cancer cells but it |
| cancer. Ethnicity is one of the factors that offers | | | | reduces the size of the prostate tumor of the |
| some differentiation, with black men the highest risk | | | | majority of patients. Most doctors recommend this |
| and Asian men the lowest.Curing prostate cancer is | | | | treatment together with surgery for best effects. |
| possible, but the condition has to be detected in the | | | | Cancer growth is stimulated by testosterone, the |
| early stages. Many men do not even seek medical | | | | male sexual hormone, and hormone therapies reduce |
| advice when the symptoms are present, partly | | | | its level. By reducing testosterone levels, the prostate |
| because they are very similar to those of another | | | | becomes less subjected to cancer cell growth. Based |
| disease: BPH or benign prostatic hypertrophy. Most | | | | on patient medical history and overall health level, |
| men will experience difficulties while urinating, noticing | | | | doctors may or may not choose to prescribe |
| a weak or intermittent flow of urine. Other | | | | hormone therapy.Sometimes, the doctor might |
| symptoms include urgent needs to urinate or the | | | | suggest an alternative treatment to surgery. |
| need to wake up several times a night to do this. | | | | Radiotherapy can work by destroying cancer cells |
| Some patients also observe a dribbling of urine after | | | | through radiation. The method is painless and involves |
| and even before urinating.There is no universal | | | | only out-body procedures. However, some side |
| treatment that will work the same in individual cases. | | | | effects like diarrhea and impotence have been |
| Doctors have to determine several decisive factors, | | | | noticed. Brachytherapy is the other. It involves the |
| such as general health condition, age, location of the | | | | implantation of radioactive elements in the prostate, |
| tumor in the prostate, size of the tumor. The number | | | | which are inserted with the patient under anesthesia. |
| one option for treatment is surgery. However, the | | | | In time, the radioactive elements loose their |
| main operation, known as radial prostatectomy, is | | | | properties, but they also help diminish cancer cell |
| extremely tiring to the body, so the patient has to | | | | growth. |