Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer: Symptoms

There are no warning signs or symptoms of early prostate cancer. Once a malignant tumor causes the prostate gland to swell significantly, or once cancer spreads beyond the prostate, the following symptoms may be present: A frequent need to urinate, especially at night Difficulty starting or stopping the urinary stream A weak or interrupted urinary [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Conventional Treatment Options

Watchful waiting.  Because prostate cancer is usually slow-growing, close monitoring through regular prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and digital rectal exam, is a viable option.  The major risk is that, between doctor visits, the cancer may spread to other parts of the body.  Even so, the watchful waiting option is highly recommended. Surgery.  Removes the [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Complementary & Alternative Medicine

As people take a more active role in their health care, many are exploring options of care that fall outside the realm of traditional medicine. In fact, a range of dietary supplements and herbal medicines offers new ways to prevent or treat prostate disease, and cancer in general. The question is, do these therapies work? [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Risk Factors

Knowing the risk factors for prostate cancer can help you determine if and when you want to begin prostate cancer screening. The main risk factors include: Age.  As you get older, your risk of prostate cancer increases. After age 50, your chance of having prostate cancer increases substantially. Race or ethnicity.  For reasons that aren’t [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Cut Your Cancer Risk

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. It is also the most over-treated. You may be able to lower your risk of getting or dying from prostate cancer: 65% – by taking selenium. A 200mcg daily supplement reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by approximately 65%. 45% – if you eat tomato [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis & Treatments

Diagnosis Two initial tests are commonly used to look for prostate cancer in the absence of any symptoms.  One is the digital rectal exam, in which a doctor feels the prostate through the rectum to find hard or lumpy areas known as nodules.  The other is a blood test used to detect a substance made [...]

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Prostate Cancer: Coping Skills

Once you receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer or treatment for this disease, you may experience a range of feelings — including disbelief, fear, anger, anxiety, emptiness and depression. You may not be able to get rid of these distressing feelings. But you can find positive ways to deal with them so they don’t dominate [...]

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10 Lessons of Prostate Cancer

Dana Jennings, NY Times.com Prostate cancer is a dark waltz, not the raging battle of popular imagination. From that first elevated PSA blood test, to the biopsy, to treatment, to those evil twins of impotence and incontinence and beyond, I’m still learning some very complicated steps more than seven months after my diagnosis. Cancer is [...]

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Pomegranate Juice Helps Fight Prostate Cancer

A DAILY glass of pomegranate juice can hold back prostate cancer and could even prevent men dying of the disease, US scientists have discovered. Just one 8oz glass of juice per day increased the stability period of prostate cancer four-fold, scientists found. The effect was so pronounced it may allow older men to avoid dying [...]

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On Sex After Prostate Surgery, Confusing Data

By Tara Parker-Pope, NY Times For men having prostate cancer surgery, one of the biggest fears is that they will be left impotent. Unfortunately, the research that might help address that question is likely only to confuse. A notable study in 2005 showed that a year after surgery, 97 percent of patients were able to [...]

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