Jul 19
Prostate cancer is often treated successfully if it is caught early, but in its very early stages there may not be any visible symptoms. Prostate cancer early symptoms often don’t become apparent until the cancer has progressed enough to put pressure on the urethra. When this happens it may cause symptoms such as pain when urinating and pains in the pelvic area, although these may be caused by something completely different so do not mean you have cancer.
Some of the early prostate cancer symptoms are:
Sudden need to urinate, often at night Painful urination and/or ejaculation Irregular urine flow Blood in urine (in some rare cases) Pain in hip or pelvic area
Again, these symptoms do not mean you have cancer, as they can be caused by many other conditions. However if you do start to have these prostate cancer early symptoms occurring, then you should contact your GP who will be able to advice you whether a test or scan is required. This will be able to determine whether you have cancerous cells in the prostate gland.
If cancerous cells are detected, then depending on your age, health and progression of the tumour (which is rated using the Gleason scale) a treatment program will be recommended by your doctor. The final say in what treatment is performed is always down to the patient however. As prostate cancer is a relatively slow growing cancer that affect predominantly older men, in many cases the man dies of other causes before the prostate cancer takes effect.
Jul 22
Prostate Cancer Information
Prostate Cancer is growing fast among the older men above 50 and as you grow older, your risk of having prostate cancer increases. Death is not definite in all the cases but the trouble it causes is nothing less than a slow death.
But if it gets diagnosed in its initial stage then it becomes easy to cure prostate cancer. And for that, you should know that how it grows.
Now what happens, the male hormones especially testosterone, stimulates the growth of cancer cells in the prostate. This testosterone is produced by the testes (nearly 95%) and the rest 5% is produced by the adrenal glands (small glands above each kidney).
Prostate Cancer is slow-growing
Prostate Cancer grows at a quite low pace. A man suffering from Prostate Cancer may lead a normal life for several years without ever having cancer discovered. As mentioned above, that this cancer grows with the growing age of an old man. In most of the cases, men with prostate cancer get diagnosed after they cross 65.
Painful Urinating – a prostate cancer symptom
This cancer can cause a lot of damage to your body. As the prostate cancer grows, it starts squeezing the urethra which results into painful urinating. This pain is considered to be the first alarming sign of prostate cancer. But its not right to relate this symptom always to prostate cancer, it can also occur due to some other infections. Sometimes, prostate cancer without showing any symptoms starts attacking the cells close to the prostate. And this is really dangerous.
Bone Pain – another prostate cancer symptom
A stage comes when the cells break off from the cancer and spread reaching the the lymph nodes, various bones (especially the hip-bone and the lower back), lungs and sometimes it reaches your brain. And then these cells form tumors in other parts of the body and start expanding. These expanded tumors start squeezing those body parts resulting in the advanced stage of prostate cancer. And when these cells reach your bones, it causes bone pain in your body.
