Prostate Cancer Therapy Works Best In The Early Stages

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Your prostate may be affected either by infection, enlargement or cancer. In an infection, the tissue in your prostate contains a type of germ that is useful in digesting food in your intestines and is often washed away when you urinate. If these are not washed away, they may cause an infection, causing irritation or burning sensation during urination or increased frequency of urination. The condition usually goes away or can be treated with antibiotics. Infections do not cause prostate cancer.

If you have prostate enlargement or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), you experience enlarged prostate symptoms like more frequent urination or continued seepage after you have completed urinating. In most situations surgery can relieve the enlarged prostate symptoms of BPH that can sometimes imitate the symptoms of prostate cancer.

In prostate cancer, you will not experience any symptoms in its early stages, when prostate cancer therapy would be most effective. You should always seek medical assistance if you have any of the symptoms indicative of prostate problems, especially when your urination is not in accord with your normal pattern.

Proper diagnosis is important to ensure cancer presence prior to determining the prostate cancer cures to be tried. Your doctor may require a prostate specific antigen or PSA test prostate to detect cancer. This test can detect almost three-quarters of cancers that develop within the first four years, which helps your doctor map out an early strategy for prostate cancer therapy.

Radical interventions like surgery or radiation therapy may also be appropriate prostate cancer therapy in these early stages, especially if the cancer is still localized within the prostate gland. The doctor will probably try to slow down the growth of your cancer by prescribing prostate cancer hormone treatment. This form of prostate cancer therapy tries to retard growth of cancer cells by eliminating the male hormones in your body.


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