|
|
Dealing with Prostate Cancer
The Complete Guide to Prevention, Symptoms,
Diagnosis, Treatment and Care of Prostate Cancer
|
| |
|
| |
Self-study Courses | Articles | Flowers | Gifts
|
|
|
Below is an extract from the ebook "Dealing with Prostate Cancer"
What is Prostate Cancer?
The Prostate gland is a small walnut-shaped gland, about three centimeters long and weighing
around twenty grams in the male reproductive system. It makes and stores seminal fluid.
This gland is in the pelvic region in front of the rectum and under the urinary bladder. It surrounds
the urethra - the tube that carries urine during urination and semen during ejaculation.
Prostate cancer is the growth of abnormal cells in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is one of the
most common types of cancer in men.
Normally, cancerous cells grow very fast. However, prostate cancer grows slowly and, initially,
remains within the prostate gland.
If prostate cancer is detected while it is within the prostate gland, treatment can often be fast and
most effective.
The prostate starts developing before birth and continues to grow until adulthood, due to male
hormones or androgens. This gland produces the seminal fluid that nourishes and transports
sperm.
The growth of prostate cancer may be very slow. As its early development does not have any signs
or cause major problems for a while, maybe years, and detection can be difficult, it is often
detected very late.
Normally, prostate cancer has hardly any symptoms. Diagnosis is often through routine checkups.
In cases of benign prostatic hypertrophy, symptoms that may be present include:
- increased urination, with greater frequency at night
- blood in the urine
- difficulty starting and maintaining a steady stream of urine, and
- painful urination.
Occurrence of prostate cancer can affect your sexual function with painful ejaculation or difficulty
achieving erection. The mixing of prostate gland secretions and semen may cause problems during
sexual intercourse.
Advanced prostate cancer is the stage where it spreads to other body parts.
Prostate cancer in the spinal cord could compress the spinal cord. This could cause additional
symptoms like vertebral pain and pain in the bones of the pelvis and ribs, and maybe fecal and
urinary incontinence and extreme weakness in the patient’s legs.
Types of Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is cancer of the cells of the prostate gland. There are different types of cells within
the prostate gland.
The most common form of prostate cancer is adenocarcinoma, cancer of the glandular tissue of
prostate gland. Around 95% of prostate cancer is adenocarcinoma. This cancer is at the surface of
the prostate and can be felt through a digital rectal examination.
More rarely, prostate cancer occurs in the tissue surrounding the prostate gland. These types of
prostate cancer include leiomyosarcoma and rhabdomyosarcoma.
Another type of prostate cancer can come from an abnormal change in the prostate cells, which
later turn malignant. This is prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia or PIN.
In advanced stages, prostate cancer can spread to surrounding tissue and fatty cells, the neck of
the bladder, seminal vesicles or to lymph nodes in the pelvic region.
Sometimes it could also spread to the bones of pelvis, spine, chest and hip.
Stages of Prostate Cancer
There are two main stages of prostate cancer. These are clinical staging and pathological staging.
Doctors conduct a digital rectal examination (DRE) and provide information about the status of
prostate cancer. This is clinical staging.
Doctors usually conduct a more thorough examination after removal of the prostate or the lymph
nodes. This helps doctors deliver an accurate prognosis. This is pathological staging.
Staging refers to the evaluation of the current stage that the cancer is at and whether it is likely,
at its present stage, to travel to other parts of the body. Doctors do this staging in consultation
with the pathologist that examines the sample(s).
Gradation of prostate cancer is according to the TNM system.
The T refers to tumor, N refers to lymph node and the M refers to metastasis (the process by which
a cancer spreads to different parts of the body).
T1 and T2 indicate early stages of cancer.
T3 and T4 indicate advanced stages.
The notation N indicates metastasis to the lymph nodes and M indicates distant metastasis.
Doctors use a complex form of prostate cancer staging. Staging of prostate cancer is essential to
detect the spread of prostate cancer and about how much it has affected other body organs.
The course of treatment for prostate cancer depends on these findings. Therefore, doctors use
blood and imaging tests to detect location and spread of prostate cancer.
Doctors use either the Roman numbers I to IV or the letters A to D. The stages are:
Stage I (A) prostate cancer: The cancer is too small and cannot be felt by digital rectal
examination. The cancer has not spread. Detection of prostate cancer might occur during surgery
for another reason.
Stage II (B) prostate cancer: The cancerous growth is felt by digital rectal examination. However,
it is within the prostate and it has not spread. Detection could be during a biopsy done due to
high PSA level.
Stage III (C) prostate cancer: The cancer has spread outside the prostate to nearby tissues.
Stage IV (D) prostate cancer: The cancer has spread to lymph nodes and/or to other body parts.
|
| |
Above is an extract from the ebook "Dealing with Prostate Cancer".
You have found the above information useful, right? Read on to find out more about this very
informative eBook.
|
| |
"You have prostate cancer and here is the prognosis...."
Imagine hearing such dreaded words and feel frightened and panic stricken!
It has been estimated in US alone, there will be more that 186,000+ new prostate cancer cases
and almost 29,000 deaths from prostate cancer.
Many people assume that prostate cancer only attacks the elderly and figure they'll just wait and
hope for the best. Bad decision. While the majority of cases do occur in men over 70, it has been
known to attack men as young as 50.
The disease also crosses ethnic lines and is the second most common malignant cancer in men.
African American men are at a higher risk than white men including Hispanic men.
According to the National Cancel Institute, "Dramatic differences in the incidence of prostate cancer
are also seen in different populations around the world." This is telling because there may be
dietary or other environmental factors involved.
Getting all the answers
Just like any disease, the earlier the detection the better the chances of beating it. That's all well
and good, but how do you know if you are at risk or heaven forbid, already showing symptoms?
What are the symptoms? You really need to have a good resource available for reference.
That's where "Dealing With Prostate Cancer" rides in to give you all the information you need to be
prepared. So often when dealing with a serious medical situation just having answers can bring
some much needed relief.
"Dealing With Prostate Cancer" understands your fears and provides you with answers to those
most burning questions. A few examples of what will help to ease your mind are:
- What are the different types of prostate cancer
- What is the progression or stages of the disease
- How common is prostate cancer
- Analysis of who is at risk for prostate cancer
- What symptoms should be watched for
- How should the disease be treated
- Are there alternative therapies for prostate cancer
- Your immune system and prostate cancer
- Does prostate cancer make a man impotent
- Nutrition and diet for prostate patients
- The right exercises your doctor may consider
- Is it possible to father children after treatment
- Can prostate cancer be prevented
Put your fears and anxiety behind you once and for all! Get the answers to these burning
questions and MUCH MORE inside "Dealing With Prostate Cancer."
You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to get the answers. Fear of the unknown is the worst
case enemy you need to fight. Getting the answers to the unknown is the first step to peace of
mind and living a long and healthy life!
Do it right now while you are focused. Don't wait until it's too late!
|
| |
|
 |
|
|
This eBook retails for $17
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
However, I am willing to offer you a special offer. You get the following 4 eBooks absolutely free,
as bonuses.
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
Special Offer
Dealing with Prostate
+
All About Asthma
+
Treating and Coping with Alzheimer's Disease
+
Understanding Incontinence
+
The Complete Guide to Migraine Headaches
= $17 only
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Click PayPal button above to get these 5 ebooks for only $17
Immediate download
|
|
Your purchase through PayPal is fully secure.
Your purchase is also fully guaranteed. If for any reason within the next 8 weeks, you
are not satisfied with your purchase, you can get back your full purchase amount. You
may even keep the ebooks. With this iron-clad guarantee, what have you got to lose?
Click on the PayPal buy button above and start immediate download!
|
|
 |
|
|
|
8 weeks Money
Back Guarantee!
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Brought to you by Jacob Gan, PhD (Michigan)
|
|
|
