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March is Prostate Cancer Awareness month, so what better time to talk about this disease which kills one man every hour. It is the most common cancer in men, with 35,000 being diagnosed each year, yet research shows that 70 per cent do not know what the prostate is. Here we give you a guide on the symptoms of prostate cancer and the treatments that are available for prostate cancer.
The Task Force also said that there is no conclusion about screening in men under 75. The task force recommendations are accessible on various websites and magazines. The major point of the discuss is that the important side effects take place right away whereas the potential benefits of increased life expectancy mainly prove to be of benefit to patients with long life expectancies.
Two usually performed surgeries are the TURP and TUIP both of which can be carried out laparoscopically or using robot technology and require to stay in hospital between 2 and 3 days. In other cases, especially where the prostate is extremely enlarged, traditional open surgery may be performed with hospitalization typically lasting about a a couple of days , at least a week.
Lycopene is one of the more promising recommended substances as natural prostate cure. It is a part of tomato and is only present in cooked tomato goods. European diets where tomatoes are commonly used have been associated with low number of prostate enlargement.
The prostate is a walnut-size gland of the male mammalian reproductive system. Its main function is to secrete and store the seminal fluid (one of the constituents of sperm). In women, Skene's glands are sometimes referred to as a female prostate. The most common problems of the prostate are benign prostatic hypertrophy, Prostatitis and prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men, and the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in America, other than skin cancer.
Enlarged prostate is such a common problem among men over a certain age that one in two men over 60 will suffer from it while the statistics for the over 50s is one in three. The gland, not more than the size of a walnut when not enlarged, is situated below a man's bladder. Here it surrounds the urethra which is the tube through which the urine is drained from the bladder. When it increases in volume, this tube is narrowed rather like a hosepipe with a clamp on it.
