Prognosis Of Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Published on May 24 2010, in the categories: Causes, Related topics
The prostate cancer is a common type of cancer affecting the male population from all around the world; each year one in six men will get to be diagnosed with a prostate cancer while in America only the lung cancer causes more deaths than prostate cancer.
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The lifetime probability to develop a prostate cancer is of about sixteen percent and usually the survival rates tend to stabilize after a period of fifteen years. The chances of ten year survival rate are of about ninety three percent while the ones for the fifteen year survival rate are of seventy seven percent.
Since there are no early symptoms to make a prostate cancer noticeable in its first stages, doctors recommend the routinely screening tests and the prostate biopsy.
The screening tests involve a digital rectal exam, which is quite unpleasant but it’s the best method for physicians to determine any abnormal size of the prostate or the existence of a hardness or lump on the surface of the prostate; the prostate specific antigen blood tests are considered a tumor marker and even though they don’t determine whether a tumor exists or not, they indicate the level of the prostate specific antigen which in normal conditions should be low. Doctors will have to interpret the obtained screening results and decide if a medical investigation should be continued or not.
If any abnormality is detected, the prostate biopsy would be the best method to give an accurate diagnose; this biopsy can be complemented by a new method of detection, the prostate mapping or even the nomogram. If cancer is diagnosed, the next step will be its grading and staging, relevant for the prescribing of a future and correct treatment.
The prognosis of the prostate cancer can be very difficult because each cancer is unique and that basically means that for each patient the same type of cancer can develop at different stages in different periods of time with different consequences.
The progression of a prostate cancer can be different depending on each patient’s medical characteristics; some factors such as age, race, genetic inheritance and the working environment are to be blamed for the evolution and apparition of a prostate cancer.
The spreading process is done through the lymph system and bloodstream once the cancerous cells have escaped from the prostate capsule; the malignant tumor, in the first stages, being confined in the prostate, will spread to far distance regions of the body affecting vital organs such as the live, the bone system or the brain once it becomes locally advanced or metastatic.
According to the TNM, tumor, nodes and metastatic, staging system or its alternative, the Whitmore-Jewett staging system, the prostate cancer has four stages, the last one or stage IV or D being the stage of the metastatic cancer. In this stage the cancer had already invaded the surrounding tissues and organs but also some other distanced regions of the organism.
As I’ve mentioned before, the prognosis is the prediction or determining what are the chances of survival or for a person to recover after being affected and how will the cancer evolve in the next period of time after its initial diagnose.
The prognosis depends very much on the cancer survival rates or statistics which identify the percentage of patients who survive a certain type of cancer for a determined amount of time; there is an established survival rate of five years after the initial diagnose and usually, if is detected yearly the chances of five year survival are of about ninety eight percent because of its slow growth, a malignant tumor doubling its size once every four years.
The prognosis becomes challenging when the cancer is locally advanced but with a right treatment the chances of surviving can be prolonged. Unfortunately, these chances drop very low if a cancer is metastatic and the average survival time is one to three years, sometimes patients will die because of some other health complications or causes. If an early cancer had recurred, the hormone therapy is one treatment option to help prolong the survival years but in most of the cases a recurred cancer had already infected the surrounding or far distanced areas of the body.
The two major prognosis for the outcome of the prostate cancer are: the patient will respond well to the treatment or the treatment will prove to be challenging.
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The lifetime probability to develop a prostate cancer is of about sixteen percent and usually the survival rates tend to stabilize after a period of fifteen years. The chances of ten year survival rate are of about ninety three percent while the ones for the fifteen year survival rate are of seventy seven percent.
Since there are no early symptoms to make a prostate cancer noticeable in its first stages, doctors recommend the routinely screening tests and the prostate biopsy.
The screening tests involve a digital rectal exam, which is quite unpleasant but it’s the best method for physicians to determine any abnormal size of the prostate or the existence of a hardness or lump on the surface of the prostate; the prostate specific antigen blood tests are considered a tumor marker and even though they don’t determine whether a tumor exists or not, they indicate the level of the prostate specific antigen which in normal conditions should be low. Doctors will have to interpret the obtained screening results and decide if a medical investigation should be continued or not.
If any abnormality is detected, the prostate biopsy would be the best method to give an accurate diagnose; this biopsy can be complemented by a new method of detection, the prostate mapping or even the nomogram. If cancer is diagnosed, the next step will be its grading and staging, relevant for the prescribing of a future and correct treatment.
The prognosis of the prostate cancer can be very difficult because each cancer is unique and that basically means that for each patient the same type of cancer can develop at different stages in different periods of time with different consequences.
The progression of a prostate cancer can be different depending on each patient’s medical characteristics; some factors such as age, race, genetic inheritance and the working environment are to be blamed for the evolution and apparition of a prostate cancer.
The spreading process is done through the lymph system and bloodstream once the cancerous cells have escaped from the prostate capsule; the malignant tumor, in the first stages, being confined in the prostate, will spread to far distance regions of the body affecting vital organs such as the live, the bone system or the brain once it becomes locally advanced or metastatic.
According to the TNM, tumor, nodes and metastatic, staging system or its alternative, the Whitmore-Jewett staging system, the prostate cancer has four stages, the last one or stage IV or D being the stage of the metastatic cancer. In this stage the cancer had already invaded the surrounding tissues and organs but also some other distanced regions of the organism.
As I’ve mentioned before, the prognosis is the prediction or determining what are the chances of survival or for a person to recover after being affected and how will the cancer evolve in the next period of time after its initial diagnose.
The prognosis depends very much on the cancer survival rates or statistics which identify the percentage of patients who survive a certain type of cancer for a determined amount of time; there is an established survival rate of five years after the initial diagnose and usually, if is detected yearly the chances of five year survival are of about ninety eight percent because of its slow growth, a malignant tumor doubling its size once every four years.
The prognosis becomes challenging when the cancer is locally advanced but with a right treatment the chances of surviving can be prolonged. Unfortunately, these chances drop very low if a cancer is metastatic and the average survival time is one to three years, sometimes patients will die because of some other health complications or causes. If an early cancer had recurred, the hormone therapy is one treatment option to help prolong the survival years but in most of the cases a recurred cancer had already infected the surrounding or far distanced areas of the body.
The two major prognosis for the outcome of the prostate cancer are: the patient will respond well to the treatment or the treatment will prove to be challenging.
Does Smoking Cause Prostate Cancer
Published on Apr 01 2010, in the categories: Causes, Problems
Does smoking cause prostate cancer?
This is a rather common question and we hear it everywhere.
The main reason why we do find this type of question is because the prostate cancer is a disease associated only with the male’s reproductive system and the number of
smokers around the world increases with each passing year.
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When they reach a certain age, a man’s internal organism may experience some changes and the metabolism is gravely affected by all those years of smoking which can also cause certain diseases.
Smoking, as well as other factors with a negative impact on your body like the excessive consume of alcohol, animal fats and junk food could just increase the exposure of developing a cancer disease, not only a prostate cancer.
This is precisely the reason why doctors recommend a nutritional diet rich in antioxidants and minerals. For the prevention of the prostate cancer this diet should contain only natural products like vegetables and fruits, but also nutritional supplements such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, lycopene, calcium, resveratrol or phyto-oestrogens with its two groups: isoflavonoids and lignans, found in berries, nuts and cereals, vitamin C in high doses, also vitamin A and E, amino and essential fatty acids, enzymes.
I would like to make things clear about why the prostate cancer is affecting predominately the aged male population.
After the age of forty, in the male organism the level of the hormone associated with the female part, estrogen, and that of the dihydrotestosterone or DHT, a testosterone variant, increases and so enlarging the size of the prostate, while the level of the male hormone, testosterone, declines.
You can not stop the aging process but you could try to improve your ways of life.
And since we talked about age, this has to be the most important factor in causing the development of the prostate cancer, because the risk just increases as time goes by so make sure you seek for a doctor’s counseling and have the screening tests as often as recommended.
The other important causes for the prostate cancer are race and genetic background.
We do know that all types of cancer could be inherited by the members of the same family, and the prostate cancer makes no exception.
As of the race factor, the reasons are yet to be found. What is sure is the fact that American-African men have a higher risk to get prostate cancer in comparison to the American-Caucasian ones. The lowest risk to get prostate cancer is among Hispanic and Asian men, in fact this disease is the rarest among Japanese men living in their home country, Japan.
The prostate cancer is a treatable disease, even the advanced form of prostate cancer has a treatment, but is better to prevent it. If you still have some unanswered questions about the causes of the prostate cancer, you can always seek for a professional advice you know where. And quit smoking!
This is a rather common question and we hear it everywhere.
The main reason why we do find this type of question is because the prostate cancer is a disease associated only with the male’s reproductive system and the number of
smokers around the world increases with each passing year.
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When they reach a certain age, a man’s internal organism may experience some changes and the metabolism is gravely affected by all those years of smoking which can also cause certain diseases.
Smoking, as well as other factors with a negative impact on your body like the excessive consume of alcohol, animal fats and junk food could just increase the exposure of developing a cancer disease, not only a prostate cancer.
This is precisely the reason why doctors recommend a nutritional diet rich in antioxidants and minerals. For the prevention of the prostate cancer this diet should contain only natural products like vegetables and fruits, but also nutritional supplements such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, lycopene, calcium, resveratrol or phyto-oestrogens with its two groups: isoflavonoids and lignans, found in berries, nuts and cereals, vitamin C in high doses, also vitamin A and E, amino and essential fatty acids, enzymes.
I would like to make things clear about why the prostate cancer is affecting predominately the aged male population.
After the age of forty, in the male organism the level of the hormone associated with the female part, estrogen, and that of the dihydrotestosterone or DHT, a testosterone variant, increases and so enlarging the size of the prostate, while the level of the male hormone, testosterone, declines.
You can not stop the aging process but you could try to improve your ways of life.
And since we talked about age, this has to be the most important factor in causing the development of the prostate cancer, because the risk just increases as time goes by so make sure you seek for a doctor’s counseling and have the screening tests as often as recommended.
The other important causes for the prostate cancer are race and genetic background.
We do know that all types of cancer could be inherited by the members of the same family, and the prostate cancer makes no exception.
As of the race factor, the reasons are yet to be found. What is sure is the fact that American-African men have a higher risk to get prostate cancer in comparison to the American-Caucasian ones. The lowest risk to get prostate cancer is among Hispanic and Asian men, in fact this disease is the rarest among Japanese men living in their home country, Japan.
The prostate cancer is a treatable disease, even the advanced form of prostate cancer has a treatment, but is better to prevent it. If you still have some unanswered questions about the causes of the prostate cancer, you can always seek for a professional advice you know where. And quit smoking!
Causes Of Prostate Cancer
Published on Mar 24 2010, in the categories: Causes
From the worlds medical research community stand point view, prostate cancer does not have a distinctive cause but rather many other ordinary ones.
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Sometimes, finding the cause of a sickness may determine the cure for it, but that certainly isn’t the case of cancer. In general, cancer is perceived as a malignant illness, some types of cancer being treatable and so the life expectancy is expanded, some are incurable. Once cancer reaches an advanced form, the worst possible can be expected. Again, that is not the case with prostate cancer.
After the age of forty men should seek for health advisers, in this case, doctors, because it is the time when the level of the hormone associated with the female part, estrogen, and that of the dihydrotestosterone or DHT, a testosterone variant, increases and so enlarging the size of the prostate, while the level of the male hormone, testosterone, declines.
Maintaining a healthy life should be the goal of every human being and life has become far too expensive to complicate it even further with diseases. A balanced nutritional diet and everyday body exercise can assure the healthy life we aim to have.
Of course, there are some things one should avoid and since we’re talking about cancer prostate causes, so I would like to make a short list of all the known causes for this sickness.
First, the most important factor has to be age. As I’ve mentioned earlier some changes happen with a male’s organism after the age of forty, the risk for a cancer prostate increasing as time goes by.
Second, although the reason has yet to be found, race and genetic background are very important for the study of prostate cancer. After several important research studies the conclusion was that American-African men have a higher risk to get prostate cancer in comparison to the American-Caucasian ones. The lowest risk to get prostate cancer is among Hispanic and Asian men, in fact this disease is the rarest among Japanese men living in their home country, Japan. As of genetics, it is well known the fact that all types of cancer tend to be inherited by members of the same family, so the prostate cancer is not an exception.
A high diet in animal fats, alcohol or smoking may just increase the exposure of getting this disease so a balanced diet it the right thing to depend on, especially when you are aging.
Make sure to follow your doctors or nutritionists advices and you may prevent the apparition of the prostate cancer. Still, if you are diagnosed with it do not give up on eating lots of vegetables and fruits. If you follow strong doses of medication, natural products will only help strengthen your organism’s defenses. Also take good notice to what natural products are benefic in fighting cancer and in what quantities they should be consumed.
Keep regularly in touch with your doctor and you should be able to live a long and decent life!
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Sometimes, finding the cause of a sickness may determine the cure for it, but that certainly isn’t the case of cancer. In general, cancer is perceived as a malignant illness, some types of cancer being treatable and so the life expectancy is expanded, some are incurable. Once cancer reaches an advanced form, the worst possible can be expected. Again, that is not the case with prostate cancer.
After the age of forty men should seek for health advisers, in this case, doctors, because it is the time when the level of the hormone associated with the female part, estrogen, and that of the dihydrotestosterone or DHT, a testosterone variant, increases and so enlarging the size of the prostate, while the level of the male hormone, testosterone, declines.
Maintaining a healthy life should be the goal of every human being and life has become far too expensive to complicate it even further with diseases. A balanced nutritional diet and everyday body exercise can assure the healthy life we aim to have.
Of course, there are some things one should avoid and since we’re talking about cancer prostate causes, so I would like to make a short list of all the known causes for this sickness.
First, the most important factor has to be age. As I’ve mentioned earlier some changes happen with a male’s organism after the age of forty, the risk for a cancer prostate increasing as time goes by.
Second, although the reason has yet to be found, race and genetic background are very important for the study of prostate cancer. After several important research studies the conclusion was that American-African men have a higher risk to get prostate cancer in comparison to the American-Caucasian ones. The lowest risk to get prostate cancer is among Hispanic and Asian men, in fact this disease is the rarest among Japanese men living in their home country, Japan. As of genetics, it is well known the fact that all types of cancer tend to be inherited by members of the same family, so the prostate cancer is not an exception.
A high diet in animal fats, alcohol or smoking may just increase the exposure of getting this disease so a balanced diet it the right thing to depend on, especially when you are aging.
Make sure to follow your doctors or nutritionists advices and you may prevent the apparition of the prostate cancer. Still, if you are diagnosed with it do not give up on eating lots of vegetables and fruits. If you follow strong doses of medication, natural products will only help strengthen your organism’s defenses. Also take good notice to what natural products are benefic in fighting cancer and in what quantities they should be consumed.
Keep regularly in touch with your doctor and you should be able to live a long and decent life!