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Date Posted: 06:29:43 02/13/14 Thu
Author: Knut Holt
Subject: Prostate cancer - prevention, symptoms and treatment

About Prostate Cancer

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Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. As much as 25 % of men probably get it, but it is often not detected because many of the cases develop extremely slowly. Read more about symptoms and treatment here.

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The prostate gland is situated around the urethra just under the bladder. Normally it has the shape and size of a large walnut. It produces much of the slime found in the semen.

By prostate cancer cells in the prostate multiply, create lumps called tumores, and the cells can migrate out of the place they were formed. The tumor will break the border of the lobe and intrude into other parts of the prostate. Cells will also eventually spread by the lymph system to other organs, especially to areas in the back.

Prostate cancer usually develops in men over the middle ages and the frequency increases as a men get old and as much as 25% of all men will probably get it at some time. Most often the cancer develops so slowly that it never gets life-threatening, even without treatment. However, some cases develops much faster into a serious condition. There are no good criteria that can predict how this cancer will develop.

The specific symptoms of prostate cancer are as follows:

- By examination one will find hard an often irregular lumps in one or more places in the prostate. As long as the lumps are small, the areas outside the lumps are normal. If the cancer has spread throughout the prostate, the shape of the whole gland can be distorted and the gland enlarged.

- The prostate area can feel engorged or tender, the man can feel burning sensation during urination, but other pain is seldom felt.

- It takes longer time for the urine to begin flowing, the flow can stop a while before beginning again, the urine flow will get weaker with less pressure at the outlet, and sometimes the urine is only dripping.

- In severe cases the urethra gets completely blocked so that the urine has to be taken out with a catheter.

- Often the bladder will not get totally empty during urination, and after some time the bladder can get permanently distended.

- The man can get more frequent urge for urination, for example during nights, because of incomplete urination and pressure on the prostate.

- Some men lose control of the urination, resulting in involuntary dripping or sudden urine outlet.

Because prostate cancer usually develop very slowly, many doctors prefere not to do routine examinations like blood tests that can rise the suspiscion, but prefere to wait until the patient feels symptoms from the prostate.

Prostate cancer is suspected if a blood specimen shows an elevated level of *** One inspects the prostate gland to find the typical lumps. This is first done by palpation towards the upper wall of the rectum with an inserted finger. Then one often looks at the prostate by means of an ultrasound sond inserted into the rectum. The final confirmation is done by taken a tissue sample (biopsy) from the prostate with a needle and looking at it in microscope.

Benign prostate growth is usually only treated if it causes symptoms. There are several type of treatment:

- One often treats the condition with medicines like finesteride (Proscar, Propecis) and alpha blockers. Finesteride blocks the production of the hormone dihydrotestosterone, and will after some time make the prostate get smaller. Alpha blockers relax muscle bundles in the prostate and area around so that urine flows more easily. One is however reluctant to begin treating with these pharmaceuticals because of a great risk for side effects.

- Finesteride, but in lower and safer doses, is also used to treat male baldness, and men treated with finesteride for prostate growth will often get better hair growth as a useful additive effect.

- One can treat the condition by microwaves that reduce the prostate size by heating. A similar treatment is inserting a needle into the prostate and apply an alternating current through it, that heats parts of the prostate and evaporates these parts. By these treatments one typically uses a working sond inserted through the urethra and a sond in the rectum to get an overview of the prostate area, or to measure the temperature in this area.

- For severe problems with urination one can cut out the whole prostate or parts of it surgically, so-called prostatectomy. The surgery is usually done with instruments inserted through the urethra. Such surgery can cause erectile problems or retrograde ejaculation, a condition where the semen goes into the bladder instead of out through the urethra.

- On the market you can also find natural remedies to reduce the prostate size and inflammatory reactions in the prostate. Many of these are based on saw palmetto or the substance cernitine extracted from pollen. By a few scientific studies so far done, they seem to be effective and without great side effects. Products based on these ingredients may therefore be a good first choice for treatment of benign prostate growth.

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Knut Holt is an internet consultant and marketer focusing on health items. To find more information about fitness, health and sex, including more information about urinary and genital issues, and products to improve fitness, health and sexual life, please visit his web-site.

http://www.abicana.com/health_information.htm

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