Definition Of Prostate Cancer
Published on Apr 07 2010, in the categories: Definition
As the name goes, the prostate cancer is a common type of cancer affecting the gland known as the prostate, found only in the male’s reproductive system, its location being near the rectum, surrounding the urethra and below the bladder; this organ is also responsible for the storage and the making of the seminal fluid.
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“Cancer” is a reference term used in defining the abnormal condition of the rapid and uncontrollable growth of the body’s cells; the newly formed cancerous cells usually outlive the normal ones.
The tumor means the abnormal growth of the cells, and, according to how spread is in the body, it is categorized as a primary and secondary tumor, the primary being the original one.
The prostate cancer can be described as the existence of very small and multiple primary tumors in the prostate organ. Under normal conditions, in this stage, the disease doesn’t present any early symptoms, but if it is detected with the screening tests, the cancer could be treated with radiation therapy or prostatectomy.
If the tumor is left untreated, the cancerous cells tend to multiply abnormally and the cancer will eventually spread to the surrounding areas of the prostate as the rectum, bones, lymph nodes in the groin area or the seminal vesicle; this is the stage known as the metastatic cancer, when the cancerous prostate cells are being transported through the bloodstream and the lymphatic system to other internal regions of the body where they grow other tumors. The results of the treatments will vary according to how spread is the cancer in the organism.
Even if cancer is the most common known prostate disease, there are also certain disorders related to the malfunctioning of this organ like benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostatitis.
The prostate cancers are classified as adenocarcinomas, developing in the glandular tissue and small cell anaplastic cancer or neuro-endocrine cancer, which spreads earlier but doesn’t produce the prostate specific antigen also known as PSA.
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the United States, affecting almost one in six men; there is a thirty five percent possibility that a man will most likely develop a prostate cancer disease than a woman, a breast cancer.
Believe it or not, when the prostate cancer was officially recognized for the first time by the medical community in 1853, it was considered as a rare disease because of the short life expectancies and lack of medical information about it. In fact, in the last 1500’s, Niccolo Massa, a Venetian anatomist, made the first attempt to describe the prostate gland and the symptoms of the prostate disorders, while illustrations of it, dating from the same period of time, are being attributed to Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish anatomist.
This disease, as I’ve stated several times in this article, is a very common illness, and this should be enough to have you thinking about giving a chance to the medical technology used in preventing and diagnosing all types of cancer, because the results of the future treatment will very much depend on how aggressive and spread is the malignant tumor in the body.
So regularly perform those recommended screening tests.
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“Cancer” is a reference term used in defining the abnormal condition of the rapid and uncontrollable growth of the body’s cells; the newly formed cancerous cells usually outlive the normal ones.
The tumor means the abnormal growth of the cells, and, according to how spread is in the body, it is categorized as a primary and secondary tumor, the primary being the original one.
The prostate cancer can be described as the existence of very small and multiple primary tumors in the prostate organ. Under normal conditions, in this stage, the disease doesn’t present any early symptoms, but if it is detected with the screening tests, the cancer could be treated with radiation therapy or prostatectomy.
If the tumor is left untreated, the cancerous cells tend to multiply abnormally and the cancer will eventually spread to the surrounding areas of the prostate as the rectum, bones, lymph nodes in the groin area or the seminal vesicle; this is the stage known as the metastatic cancer, when the cancerous prostate cells are being transported through the bloodstream and the lymphatic system to other internal regions of the body where they grow other tumors. The results of the treatments will vary according to how spread is the cancer in the organism.
Even if cancer is the most common known prostate disease, there are also certain disorders related to the malfunctioning of this organ like benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostatitis.
The prostate cancers are classified as adenocarcinomas, developing in the glandular tissue and small cell anaplastic cancer or neuro-endocrine cancer, which spreads earlier but doesn’t produce the prostate specific antigen also known as PSA.
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the United States, affecting almost one in six men; there is a thirty five percent possibility that a man will most likely develop a prostate cancer disease than a woman, a breast cancer.
Believe it or not, when the prostate cancer was officially recognized for the first time by the medical community in 1853, it was considered as a rare disease because of the short life expectancies and lack of medical information about it. In fact, in the last 1500’s, Niccolo Massa, a Venetian anatomist, made the first attempt to describe the prostate gland and the symptoms of the prostate disorders, while illustrations of it, dating from the same period of time, are being attributed to Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish anatomist.
This disease, as I’ve stated several times in this article, is a very common illness, and this should be enough to have you thinking about giving a chance to the medical technology used in preventing and diagnosing all types of cancer, because the results of the future treatment will very much depend on how aggressive and spread is the malignant tumor in the body.
So regularly perform those recommended screening tests.
Lycopene Prostate Cancer
Published on Apr 01 2010, in the categories: Definition, Therapies
The exact definition of lycopene is a phytochemical found in red fruits and red vegetables such as tomatoes, being a carotene with a bright red color and a carotenoid pigment but with no vitamin A activity, even though it is chemically a carotene.
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People who opt for a nutritional diet and for the alternative treatment to fight the prostate cancer disease should know exactly what mineral supplements and antioxidants are recommended, and the list would be this: 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.
Lycopene’s antioxidant activity has the benefic result of reversing or stopping the tumor from spreading.
Lycopene is found in apricots, papayas, pink grapefruits, watermelons, red carrots, guava and of course tomatoes, cooked tomatoes.
Research studies like the “Intake of carotenoids and retinol in relation to risk of prostate cancer”, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, concluded that men who served ten or more foods based on tomatoes per week were less likely to suffer from a prostate cancer, decreasing the risk of developing one with about forty five percent.
Also the same study had shown the fact that tomato juice or raw tomatoes offered no or little protection against prostate cancer, instead when tomatoes are cooked their broken cell walls release lycopene in large quantities.
The University of Illinois conducted a research study about the effect of lycopene found in tomatoes on the evolution of the prostate cancer. Thirty two patients with prostate cancer were used for this research study. They underwent a medical examination to find the level of lycopene in their body, the level of prostate specific antigen and the level of oxidative damage to their leukocytes. After three weeks, when daily they were fed with a pasta dish with about thirty mg of tomato juice, the levels of lycopene found in their body had doubled while the PSA level dropped from 10.9 ng/mL to 8.7 ng/mL. The interpretation of this result was that lycopene may have some sort of important role in preventing and treating the prostate cancer.
Studies are still being conducted because there are many unknown things about the effect of lycopene on the prostate cancer but also on the well functioning of the organism. For example, doctors still don’t know what exact daily amount of lycopene is effective against cancer, and even if they found out about that, they still had to verify how this amount could possibly affect the other functions of the prostate or even the whole organism.
It’s an encouraging result the finding of a natural supplement effective enough to prevent the development of the prostate cancer, but until better results come into the open, patients would have to opt for the already available treatments, which for the moment are good enough.
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People who opt for a nutritional diet and for the alternative treatment to fight the prostate cancer disease should know exactly what mineral supplements and antioxidants are recommended, and the list would be this: 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.
Lycopene’s antioxidant activity has the benefic result of reversing or stopping the tumor from spreading.
Lycopene is found in apricots, papayas, pink grapefruits, watermelons, red carrots, guava and of course tomatoes, cooked tomatoes.
Research studies like the “Intake of carotenoids and retinol in relation to risk of prostate cancer”, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, concluded that men who served ten or more foods based on tomatoes per week were less likely to suffer from a prostate cancer, decreasing the risk of developing one with about forty five percent.
Also the same study had shown the fact that tomato juice or raw tomatoes offered no or little protection against prostate cancer, instead when tomatoes are cooked their broken cell walls release lycopene in large quantities.
The University of Illinois conducted a research study about the effect of lycopene found in tomatoes on the evolution of the prostate cancer. Thirty two patients with prostate cancer were used for this research study. They underwent a medical examination to find the level of lycopene in their body, the level of prostate specific antigen and the level of oxidative damage to their leukocytes. After three weeks, when daily they were fed with a pasta dish with about thirty mg of tomato juice, the levels of lycopene found in their body had doubled while the PSA level dropped from 10.9 ng/mL to 8.7 ng/mL. The interpretation of this result was that lycopene may have some sort of important role in preventing and treating the prostate cancer.
Studies are still being conducted because there are many unknown things about the effect of lycopene on the prostate cancer but also on the well functioning of the organism. For example, doctors still don’t know what exact daily amount of lycopene is effective against cancer, and even if they found out about that, they still had to verify how this amount could possibly affect the other functions of the prostate or even the whole organism.
It’s an encouraging result the finding of a natural supplement effective enough to prevent the development of the prostate cancer, but until better results come into the open, patients would have to opt for the already available treatments, which for the moment are good enough.
What Is Prostate Cancer
Published on Mar 11 2010, in the categories: Definition, Stages of disease, Useful Info
The prostate is the gland responsible for production of the thick fluid that carries the sperm. This is located beneath the bladder surrounding the upper part for the urethra. The urine is carried from the bladder to this tube called urethra. This is found only in men. The prostate grows continuously from the birth to the adulthood. This is the normal growth because at a certain age this stop and the male hormones (called androgens) aren't produced anymore.
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Continuous growth of the prostate after a certain age will lead to BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). BPH cause problems for passing urine and can be treated. This is not cancer. One common form of prostate cancer is the adenocarcinoma that develops in the gland cells of the prostate. The prostate cancer develops slowly. Autopsies showed that many patients died because of other disease having prostate cancer and their doctors didn't knew anything about it. Because of the slow growth there is a high survival rate from prostate cancer.
The prostate cancer is staged after the size and spread of cancerous cells. Elderly men over 50 have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer. There are rare cases of men suffering of prostate cancer at the age of 30's and 40's. The genetic inheritance is another risk factor for developing prostate cancer. The diet can influence the development of prostate cancer.
Doctors recommend early screening starting from the age of 40 to know the risk of developing prostate cancer and decide the prognosis and the method of treatment. In the early stages prostate cancer can be cured. If it has found in the final stages there are no treatment for curing, but there are treatments to slow the evolution.
PIN stands for prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and refers to very small changes in the shape and sze of the prostate gland cells. The most common system for grading the prostate cancer is the TNM (Tumor/Nodes/Metastases). Doctors define the size of the tumors and the number of the lymph nodes involved. Cancer that are only at the prostate level are graded with T1 and T2 for cancer spread outside the prostate area are used T3 and T4.
There are several methods of treatment for prostate cancer such as active surveillance/watchful, surgery, external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, hormone therapy, hifu. Any of this can be used according to the grading of the prostate cancer. Only the doctor can decide which method of treatment works best for you. The man suffering from prostate cancer can go online to search for forums and associations that have programs to inform people how to deal with prostate cancer.
Reading about other people experience with prostate cancer can be very good and help the patient cope with it easily. The prostate cancer can’t be looked as an individual disease because this can have a huge impact on family life. There are several sides affected in the family life. One of them is the financial factor, because all the visit to the doctor for diagnose and prescribe a good treatment and afterward the treatment can sweep out a family budget very easily. Sexual life of a couple can be torn apart because of it. With the evolution of medicine and the method of treatment prostate cancer isn’t anymore a hopeless cancer form.
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Continuous growth of the prostate after a certain age will lead to BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). BPH cause problems for passing urine and can be treated. This is not cancer. One common form of prostate cancer is the adenocarcinoma that develops in the gland cells of the prostate. The prostate cancer develops slowly. Autopsies showed that many patients died because of other disease having prostate cancer and their doctors didn't knew anything about it. Because of the slow growth there is a high survival rate from prostate cancer.
The prostate cancer is staged after the size and spread of cancerous cells. Elderly men over 50 have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer. There are rare cases of men suffering of prostate cancer at the age of 30's and 40's. The genetic inheritance is another risk factor for developing prostate cancer. The diet can influence the development of prostate cancer.
Doctors recommend early screening starting from the age of 40 to know the risk of developing prostate cancer and decide the prognosis and the method of treatment. In the early stages prostate cancer can be cured. If it has found in the final stages there are no treatment for curing, but there are treatments to slow the evolution.
PIN stands for prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and refers to very small changes in the shape and sze of the prostate gland cells. The most common system for grading the prostate cancer is the TNM (Tumor/Nodes/Metastases). Doctors define the size of the tumors and the number of the lymph nodes involved. Cancer that are only at the prostate level are graded with T1 and T2 for cancer spread outside the prostate area are used T3 and T4.
There are several methods of treatment for prostate cancer such as active surveillance/watchful, surgery, external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, hormone therapy, hifu. Any of this can be used according to the grading of the prostate cancer. Only the doctor can decide which method of treatment works best for you. The man suffering from prostate cancer can go online to search for forums and associations that have programs to inform people how to deal with prostate cancer.
Reading about other people experience with prostate cancer can be very good and help the patient cope with it easily. The prostate cancer can’t be looked as an individual disease because this can have a huge impact on family life. There are several sides affected in the family life. One of them is the financial factor, because all the visit to the doctor for diagnose and prescribe a good treatment and afterward the treatment can sweep out a family budget very easily. Sexual life of a couple can be torn apart because of it. With the evolution of medicine and the method of treatment prostate cancer isn’t anymore a hopeless cancer form.