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One man in every six will get prostate cancer during his lifetime, but if caught early, about 99.3 percent survive. More men get prostate cancer than any other type of non-skin cancer.
Prostate Cancer Articles
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy This technique uses high-energy rays or particles to kill cancer cells. Both external beam radiation and brachytherapy (seed implants) have a good track record in treating prostate cancer.
Prostate Cancer Biopsies Biopsies detect prostate cancer in about one-fourth of men with abnormal screening tests. However, a negative biopsy does not ensure the absence of disease.
Decreased Sex Function Over a 5-year period, men with localized prostate cancer showed a much higher rate in impaired sexual function and urinary control than did similar men without the disease.
Who gets Prostate cancer? Any man can get prostate cancer, but some have a higher risk than others. While a number of risk factors come with the territory, others can be modified to improve a man's odds.
PSA Testing for Prostate Cancer A recent study found that 15 percent of men with a "normal" reading on the PSA blood test had a prostate tumor. In 2 percent of the men, the cancer was life-threatening. Does Aspirin prevent Prostate Cancer? Though the evidence for it isn't as compelling as it is for some other cancers, aspirin may modestly reduce the risk that a man will develop prostate cancer, a large new study suggests.
Prostate Cancer Treatment Advances are made almost daily concerning the treatment of prostate cancer.
New Prostate Cancer Treatment This year, close to 30,000 men will face a recurrence of prostate cancer. And half of them will likely die. But now doctors have found a new way to eliminate the disease.
Masturbation prevents Prostate Cancer? It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer.
Prostate Cancer and DHT It's not too much or too little testosterone that causes prostate cancer. The results are in and everyone's pointing to high levels of DHT.
Prostate Cancer AMAS Testing A more sensible and dependable way to screen for prostate cancer is a blood test called the anti-malignin antibody screen (AMAS). Anti-malignan antibody levels become elevated when any cancer cells are present in the body. Additional Prostate Cancer Articles Page 1 2 3 4 5 6
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