According to the general information about cancer and the prostate cancer in particular, each cancer is unique so different patients may experience different symptoms even if they were diagnosed with the same type and the same cancer stage.
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This is one reason why the prognosis for its outcome can be so difficult; the patients will either respond well to the prescribed treatment and the cancer can even be cured or the therapy treatments will prove ineffective of stopping or even delaying the spreading of that particular type of cancer so even if the cancer was identified in its early stage it will soon become locally advanced or metastasized and infecting vital organs such as the lungs or brain or the bone system.

The same information on prostate cancer tells us that cancer doesn’t disappear even with a powerful treatment and to make sure that you can cure it, every type of cancer has to be diagnosed in its early stages when it is organ confined or located only in the primary site of the infected organ.


This is the exact same case as with the prostate cancer. The prostate is a male specific gland found in the reproductive system or mire precisely, locate near the urethra and bladder and being responsible with the making of the seminal fluid. Since the testicles are responsible for ninety percent of the body’s hormones, here the testosterone, and also being locate near the prostate gland region, it is easy to understand why any hormonal problem will directly affect the well functioning of the prostate organs and cause diseases or disorders such as prostatitis or the benign prostatic hyperplasia described by the enlargement of the prostate which may cause some difficulties with the urinary or sexual activities.

The early symptoms of the prostate cancers are not noticeable; when the spreading process had already begun, the common reported signs are: painful ejaculation or urine odor, urinary dribbling or weak urine stream, painful or frequent urination, blood in the urine or semen, prostate inflammation or blockage or any kind of ache or stiffness or leg pain, etc.

The medical specialists will give an accurate diagnose only after the screening tests and the prostate biopsy and when they gather as much information as needed about that prostate cancer.

The screening includes two medical examination procedures: the digital rectal exam, a method simply performed by inserting a gloved finger into the rectum to palpate the surface of the prostate gland and to search for any hardness or lump on that surface of the prostate which can indicate the existence of a malignant tumor still confined in the prostate capsule; the prostate specific antigen blood tests indicate the levels of the prostate specific antigen in the body which in normal circumstances should be low but results above thirty nanograms indicate de existence of cancer cells while values between four and ten nanograms per milliliter of blood stand at the borderline.


The prostate cancer informational sources tell us that the spreading process is done when the cancer cells start their travel through the bloodstream and the lymph system to far distance regions where the secondary and small malignant tumors will appear; even if the cancer is treated after a period of time is can recurs in more aggressive forms such as the metastases or two metastatic tumors or more.

The results of the screening tests can only be interpreted by the medical specialists because they don’t offer an accurate diagnose whether cancer exists or not.

For the prostate biopsy is done by extracting small and different tissue samples from all the prostate gland regions and analyzing them to detect any cancer cells. This method of detection is complemented by newer ones such as the nomogram, the magnetic resonance imaging or MRI and the coaxial tomography or CAT scan, the prostate mapping or the radionuclide bone scans.

For determining the characteristics of cancer the grading process done with the popular Gleason scale and the staging process done with the help of the Whitmore-Jewett system or TNM (tumor, nodes and metastatic) system, are need.

Treatments may vary depending of the characteristics mentioned above and as a examples prostate cancer surgery or the prostatectomy is recommended only when the cancer is organ confined; for the advanced types of cancer the hormone therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy or cryotherapy are the best treatments available out there.

<p>The <strong>abnormal condition</strong>, which occurs when <strong>cancerous cells</strong> appear and start to grow at a rapid pace and multiply at an uncontrollable speed while the normal ones have an even shorter life span, is known under the name of <strong>cancer</strong>; cancer allows the spreading process of the <strong>primary tumor, </strong>in the early stage being found only in the primary site, to other surrounding areas of the infected part of the body; this <strong>malignant</strong> tumor will determine the growth of other new and secondary tumors, small in size, until the cancer becomes locally advanced and eventually, metastasized.
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<p>If the cancerous cells have reached out from the <strong>prostate capsule</strong> and entered the <strong>lymph</strong>, a clear fluid which is carried to the heart through the lymph vessels, or <strong>bloodstream</strong>, it is expected from them to invade the whole body, especially the bone system.
<p>If the cancer is detected in the early stages it can also be <strong>curable</strong> but sometimes the cancer is so <strong>far advanced</strong> and distanced that physicians find it hard to identify the exact body part where the primary tumor is: in this situation the medical community refers to this disease as <strong>cancer of unknown primary; </strong>if two or more metastatic tumors are detected in the body we refer to this situation as <strong>metastases</strong>.

<p>A patient must be <strong>aware</strong> of the fact that cancer is a treatable disease and sometimes we can dare say curable, if the minimum five years after treating the cancer have passed without any sign or recurrence; if the cancer is <strong>recurrent</strong> and comes back as metastases, we refer to this situation as <strong>distant recurrence</strong>.
<p>The <strong>metastasized</strong> cancer will affect <strong>bone structures</strong> such as the ribs, the humerus, the femur, the pelvis or hip, the leg bones, and in the worst case scenario the skull and the <strong>spinal cord</strong>. Usually the distant bones are not affected, especially if the patient starts immediately a treatment, but men should be aware of the fact that the bone structures are the third most common location invaded by the malignant tumors.
<p>The metastatic bone <strong>lesions</strong> are characterized as osteolytic, osteoblastic or mixed and the symptoms associated bone metastasis are <strong>pain</strong>, hypercalcemia and pathological fractures;</p><p>pain is felt because the tumor will stretch the periosteum and stimulate the nerves in the endosteum.

<p>The coaxial tomography, the radionuclide bone scans or the <strong>magnetic resonance imaging or MRI </strong>can confirm if the cancer has spread to the bones or not; the recommended treatments for prostate cancer bone mets are the radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
<p><strong>Radiation therapy</strong> or radiotherapy damages the DNA of a cancerous cell to stop its multiplication and can cause its death. There are two known radiation procedures: <strong>brachytheraphy</strong> or internal beam radiation is done by inserting small radioactive seeds or pellets, the size of a rice grain, into the gland, through needles to avoid the damaging of the surrounding organs or tissues and left in there to slowly decay; the <strong>proton beam therapy</strong> or internal beam therapy is a complex form of treatment, successfully replacing the Cobalt-60 gamma-ray therapy or the x-ray therapy.
<p><strong>Chemotherapy</strong> is a treatment procedure that uses <strong>chemicals</strong> to oppose and kill the cancerous cells or micro-organisms; in general chemotherapy causes the death of all the <strong>fast dividing cells</strong>, even under normal circumstances: hair follicles, digestive tract or bone marrow. Because of this the common <strong>side-effects</strong> are hair loss or <strong>alopecia</strong>, the decreased production of blood cells, a condition known as <strong>myelosuppression</strong> and the inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract or <strong>mucositis</strong>.
<p>There are several <strong>types</strong> of chemotherapy treatments: neoadjuvant chemotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy, combines modality chemotherapy or palliative chemotherapy.
<p>The chemotherapeutic <strong>drugs</strong> are antimetabolites, plant alkaloids, alkylating agents, anthracyclines, topoisomerase inhibitors and antitumour agents.
<p> Doctors will know exactly what to prescribe in your situation so make sure to follow their advices.</p>

The radiation therapy is the second most popular conventional treatment procedure used in treating the prostate cancer, after the operation known as prostatectomy. The radiotherapy uses two treatment methods: the brachytherapy or the internal beam radiation and the external beam radiation. The effect of the radiotherapy, in both cases, is the damage done to the DNA of the cancerous cells to stop them from multiplying at a rapid speed. The proton treatment is a procedure invented in the twentieth century and in the first stages, the medical community used the intraprostatic radium implants. Soon after, this method was replaced with the use of the proton energy, more exactly in 1946, when this treatment gave some good results after being used for the more common diseases such as cancer. The proton beam radiation therapy is a complex form of treatment, done only under the general and careful observation of oncologists or the radiation therapy specialists.
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The patient receives this treatment in a guidance room, under the direct observation of physicians and specialized computers, the beam being directly used only on the infected area of the body. This procedure goes something like this: the proton used in this kind of therapy starts its journey in an injector, found in an electric field, where the hydrogen atoms are divided into positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons; the protons are transported through a vacuum tube to the synchrotron, circulating at a rapid speed and increasing the protons energy with approximately two hundred fifty million electron volts, penetrating the skin at any depth. The proton therapy treatment successfully replaces the Cobalt-60 gamma-ray therapy or the x-ray therapy.

The side-effects are normal for all types of prostate cancer treatments, especially for the radiation therapy or the androgen deprivation therapy. The energy dose required to treat the cancer depends on the type of cancer, the stage or just how advanced is the tumor is the body and last, but not least, what are the reactions of the patients to this sort of treatment and the after effects. The common side-effects are impotence and urinary or fecal incontinence and sometimes the proton beam radiation can also damage some surrounding healthy tissues because oncologists don’t have the possibility to guess exactly what necessary energy dose to use. The intensity of the dose can either be low-rate or LDR, medium-dose or MDR, a high-dose or HDR and a pulsed-dose rate or PDR.

It would be better for the doctor to have some experience with these treatment procedures because he will know exactly, just by giving a personal interpretation of the disease’s characteristics, the required proton energy dose and usually the results of the temporary brachytherapy will be affected if the radiation sources aren’t correctly placed on the infected area for the necessary period of time, either being a few minutes or sometimes, hours. If a patient has a disease with low risk he can either choose radiotherapy or prostatectomy as a treatment method; the intermediate and high risk diseases are treated with radiation therapy and for a long or a short period of time with hormonal ablation. If the patients respond well to the treatment, there is a high chance to cure the cancer, but only if it is detected in the early stages. The metastatic cancer makes life painful and should be avoided at all cost.

The radiation therapy that uses the brachytherapy and the external beam radiation as the main treatment procedures has the general effect of damaging the DNA of the cancerous cells to stop their multiplying process. The proton theory is the same as the one mentioned above and is an operational procedure developed in the twentieth century. In the first stage this treatment method consisted of intraprostatic radium implants but the use of proton energy, proposed for the first time in 1946, for treating diseases such as cancer became a standard and popular operation only in these last two decades. The proton therapy is defined as a radiation treatment that uses an external beam and is regarded as the alternative for the Cobalt-60 gamma-ray therapy or the x-ray therapy.
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These are the following steps for the proton beam radiation therapy:  the proton starts its complex journey in an injector placed in an electric field. There, the hydrogen atoms are divided into positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons; the protons are transported through a vacuum tube to the synchrotron at a rapid speed, circulating at about ten million times per second and increasing the energy of the protons with approximately seventy and two hundred fifty million electron volts, until they finally penetrate the skin of the patients body, an any depth possible. In the guidance room, where the patient receives the radiation treatment and the doctors guide the beam placement directly on the infected area of the body, all is recorded and observed by computers.

The exact beam radiation dose depends on how far spread is the cancer, the stage of the tumor and what are the first reactions of the body to such a treatment. The common side-effects are impotence and urinary or fecal incontinence and sometimes the proton beam radiation can also damage some surrounding healthy tissues because oncologists don’t have the possibility to guess exactly what necessary energy dose to use. Brachytherapy seems less risky than the proton beam therapy but in general, the radiation therapies have some risk factors and side-effects. The brachy term from the brachytherapy word comes from the greek translation of “short distance”, being known as internal beam radiation because the radioactive seeds or pellets are being inserted right into the prostate gland through needles thus avoiding the damaging of the surrounding organs or body parts.

This radiation procedure is also known as permanent brachytherapy and usually the side effects are: urinary incontinence, dysuria or painful urination, urinary retention, diarrhea, potential rectal bleeding, constipation. There is a possibility that the radioactive seeds implanted in the gland will find their way out of the prostate capsule and migrate to other surrounding areas such as the bladder, the urethra or into the urine or the seminal fluid. The results of the temporary brachytherapy, described as the direct placement of the radiation sources for a certain period of time, usually being only a few minutes or hours, will mostly depend on the type of cancer, the size and the location of the tumor and what is the required energy dose rate. The intensity of the dose can either be low-rate or LDR, medium-dose or MDR, a high-dose or HDR and a pulsed-dose rate or PDR. If a doctor has an experience with such treatment procedures, in this case being the radiation therapy, he will definitely know exactly just what dose should be use for a patient depending on the characteristics of his disease. The proton therapy for prostate cancer is based on what is written above so when deciding for a conventional treatment method the physician will ascertain what are the personal preferences of the patient but also his age, his genetic history and just how advanced is the cancer which affects him.

The proton radiation therapy is an external-beam radiation treatment procedure and an alternative to the x-ray therapy or the Cobalt-60 gamma-ray therapy. The radiation therapy is a conventional treatment method, developed in the early 20th century and consisting of intraprostatic radium implants. Once the radiation sources became stronger the external beam procedure became the popular choice for radiation therapy and today, the oncologists treat diseases such as cancer in two ways: by implanting LDR radioactive pellets or seeds in the infected organ, here the prostate, and leave them there until they eventually decay and disappear, a procedure also known as seed implantation procedure or permanent brachytherapy; the other is the proton radiation, using specialized machines to generate beams from outside the infected body area and directly place the radiation on it, usually for a few minutes and sometimes for hours, depending on the location, size and type of cancer and the required dose rate.

The use of proton energy for medical treatment was proposed in 1946 and ten years later his treatment procedure became standard for treating diseases such as cancer. The common side effects of radiation therapy are incontinence and impotence, but when the proton beam therapy is used there is always a possibility for doctors to damage some of the healthy tissues surrounding the prostate organ just because there is no way for them to guess what energy dose is necessary to damage the tumor. The results obtained after a certain dose is established and used may vary, depending on the stage of the cancer, how far spread is or how the body reacts to such a treatment. The proton beam procedure goes something like this: the proton begins its journey in an injector located within an electric field where the hydrogen atoms are being separated into positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons, the first being transported through a vacuum tube until they start their journey at a high speed in the synchrotron, circulating at about ten million times per second and increasing the energy of the protons with approximately seventy and two hundred fifty million electron volts, until they reach at any depth of the patients body. The guidance room, where the patient is treated with the proton therapy, has computers which direct the placement of the beams and control the correct doses of radiation a patient needs.

This is done under the full observation of medical experts and oncologists or the physicians specialized in radiation therapy. There is a possibility that this treatment method might be the right one for your and your disease, and although it is a rather new treatment procedure the results are encouraging. The prostate cancer is a frequent and common disease and treatments are available for it, even if the cancer is in an advanced form and has become metastatic. The doctors will advise the patients and give details about each treatment method. Before making a decision try to find out more about the treatment you want to use.

After the age of forty, men will experience some internal body changes such as the declining level of testosterone while the level of dihydrotestosterone and estrogen will know an increase. Because of these changes, the prostate will be affected by disorders and diseases such as such as the prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, the benign prostatic hyperplasia or prostatitis. When a tumor is malignant it will eventually lead to the development of cancer in that certain organ. The same is the case with the prostate cancer. This disease is a common type of cancer which affects the prostate gland found only in the reproductive system of a male, and could be defined as the abnormal condition which leads to the fast and uncontrollable growth of the normal body cells and increases the multiplication level of the cancerous cells; the organ-confined tumor, as it is in the first stage, will double its size once every four years, but once it becomes locally advanced it will grow at a rapid pace until the cancer becomes metastatic.
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The spreading process is easily determined once the cancerous cell have reached and entered the bloodstream or the lymph vessels, the cancer invading the surrounding tissues and organs of the prostate, and in its advanced form, invading and growing other small tumors in the far distance regions of the internal body. This disease may have multiple causes, but the well known are age, genetic background, race and the unhealthy diets and excessive smoking or drinking. Up until now, no food combinations or a particular category of foods have had the result of curing this disease nor be blamed for its apparition or recurrence.

The most important fact is that this disease can be treated and even cured if the cancer is discovered in its early stages. The unfortunate and depressing fact is that no early symptoms can indicate the existence of the organ confined tumor, and a doctor can put a diagnose only with the help of the routinely screening tests, and only if these tests give an abnormal result, the prostate biopsy is seen as necessary. The prostate cancer has no early signs or symptoms, but once the tumor starts spreading, this process will be noticeable and common reported symptoms tend to appear: weak or frequent urine stream, burning while urinating, painful ejaculation, pain while urinating, back pains, stiffness, blood in urine or semen, ache or abdomen and bone pain, compression of the spine, leg weakness or incontinence. The muscle weakness basically means the lack of muscle strength and is often associated with other symptoms such as dizziness and fatigues.

The metastatic cancer is a bit more aggressive and patients will often report painful symptoms such as leg pain, incontinence if the spine is compressed because of the tumor, coughing, respiratory problems and chest pains if the lungs are infected; a weak liver would cause abdomen pains and give a yellow color to the skin; the ribs, the pelvis, the vertebrae and all the bone structures will eventually be affected by the prostate cancer because cancer in general has the predilection of affecting first this body parts. If these symptoms are left untreated the cancer will lead to a painful and slow death, so to avoid as much as possible this terrible situation always take good care of your health and do those recommended screening tests.

The prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer, the first being skin cancer; as the name goes this type of cancer affects only the prostate gland, found in the male’s reproductive system. Cancer is a problematic disease since nothing is known for certain about it. What we do know are some of its causes, the symptoms the patients often report and treatments to stop its evolution. Causes like age, genetic background, race, a high diet in animal fats, excessive drinking and smoking or secondhand smoking could be held responsible for the apparition of the tumors. Some patients are affected more or less by this disease, depending on how far advanced the tumor is. There are no early symptoms to indicate the existence of cancerous cells or an organ-confined tumor, so doctors can diagnose the prostate cancer only with the help of the screening tests, the prostate specific antigen blood tests and the uncomfortable digital rectal exam, or the prostate biopsy.
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When the cancer begins its spreading process and the cancerous cells enter the bloodstream or the lymph vessels, the symptoms will eventually make noticeable the evolution of this disease in the organism. Patients report symptoms such as frequent urination or weak urine stream, blood in urine or semen, burning or pain while urinating, painful ejaculation, back pains, stiffness, ache. If the cancer is in its advanced form, the bone pain is the most common reported symptom, because metastatic cancer has the predilection of affecting first the bone structures; eventually the cancer will spread fast to the lungs and liver causing coughing, chest pains, pain in the abdomen and give a yellow skin appearance. When the cancer reaches the spinal cord it will cause spinal compression leading to muscle weakness and incontinence, fecal or urinary.

The real effects of the prostate cancer will be felt only after the prescription of a treatment. Some patients will respond well to it but some may even experience terrible pains because of those treatments. Usually a powerful treatment has some serious side effects. For example, surgery or prostatectomy, is a procedure defined as the complete removal of the prostate gland. If the tumor is organ-confined the surgery may have some rather good results but if the tumor began its spreading, surgery will only increase the risk of dying. Once the cancerous cells have entered the bloodstream or the lymph vessels, the cancer will spread at a rapid pace, until it becomes metastasized, leading eventually to slow and painful death if it is left untreated. Even with a proper treatment we can’t say for certainty that the cancer will be cured, because there is always a small possibility the cancer to be recurrent.

According to a survey, one per cent among men with ages between sixty five and sixty nine die because of local bleeding when prostatectomy is done, in about thirty five point five per cent of the cases the patient will report impotence as a side-effect and in four point five per cent of the cases, incontinence. The hormone therapy or the androgen deprivation therapy can cause some serious physical changes like breast enlargement or impotence and sometimes cardiovascular disorders. The radiation therapy is the second most popular conventional treatment procedure, with effects such as impotence and incontinence, constipation, diarrhea, rectal bleeding. Doctors recommend a safe sex after this procedure, because sometimes the radioactive seeds implanted in the gland could migrate to other regions surrounding the gland.

The rest of the treatment procedures have some side-affects as well but to get to know this better you should contact your personal doctor and request for an advice if you get to be diagnosed with a prostate cancer. As you probably noticed, the more powerful a treatment is, the more drastic are its side effects. Always stay informed about this disease and regularly do those screening tests.

Is prostate cancer curable? The answer would be yes…and no. By definition, a curable disease is a certain malignant condition that can be treated, leading eventually to its complete eradication from the organism. The definition of curable is that a certain disease completely disappeared from the organism because it was treated earlier. But I shall give more details about why there are two answers for this question and not one. “Cancer” describes an abnormal condition when the body starts producing cancerous cells while the normal ones experience a rapid and uncontrollable growth eventually leading to a fast death. The main problem is that the cancerous cells are different from the normal ones: they outlive the last ones and multiply at a rapid speed.
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The spreading of the organ-confined tumor can be a slow one or a fast one, depending on each patient’s organism; sometimes the tumor could double its size once every four years. Once the cancerous cells have entered the bloodstream or the lymph vessels, the cancer will spread at a rapid pace, until it becomes metastasized. If this disease is identified or diagnosed in its early stage, the person’s survival rates will only increase. Usually, for these patients the answer to the above question is yes, simply because any type of cancer can be curable if the diagnose is early or if the prescribed treatment offers some benefic results and if doctors don’t find any sign of recurrence in those five years after the surgery it is less possible for cancer to develop again. There are three factors which make the cancer curable: identify the type of cancer, the stage of the cancer and if the patient responds to the treatment prescribed.

Things are a bit difficult when referring to the prostate cancer. First, this disease has no early symptoms so an early detection is possible only when the male patient decides to have the screening tests. These tests have to be done periodically, so if you want to maintain your healthy life then no skipping is allowed. Second, if the screening tests are ignored the symptoms associated with the prostate cancer will appear only after the cancer began its spreading. If the cancer is detected but left untreated it will become metastatic and the chances of curing this disease are less favorable. The available and recommended treatments for the prostate cancer are: prostatectomy or surgery, the operation being done by completely removing the prostate gland; the radiation therapy seeks to damage the DNA of the cancerous cells to stop their multiplication and this therapy uses two methods: implanting radioactive seeds in the prostate or an external beam radiation; cryotherapy or cryoablation, a treatment method done by freezing the gland and killing the cancerous cells as well as the normal ones; the well known chemotherapy and last, but not least, an unconventional treatment method known as hormone therapy or androgen deprivation therapy, which suppresses the level of cancer inducing hormones, here, the testosterone. Some factors are suspected of causing the prostate cancer but nothing is certain. Prevention has to be the general rule leading our life, but in some cases it is not possible.

For the prostate cancer, research studies concluded that age, genetic background and even race are some of the factors responsible for its development. The aging process can not be stopped, you can not get rid of the inherited genes and you certainly can not choose your race before or after birth. Unhealthy foods are also to be blamed for developing some serious diseases, but it is not certain if some particular foods or foods combination are responsible for cancer or if there is a possibility of curing it. Regularly go for a medical check and if something bothers you, related to your health, don’t mind asking your physician.

Laparoscopy is the medical procedure developed in recent years which allows physicians to investigate the pelvic and abdominal organs, the intestines, the appendix and even the liver. This procedure is done by inserting a small tube-like instrument similar to a telescope through an incision made in the belly button or a small cut in the skin while the patient is under general anesthesia. Laparoscopy can have some side effects like skin infection near the incision area, the possibility of damaging internal body structures such as the bladder, bowel, ureter and blood vessels or further complications may appear because of the anesthesia.<-336x280 Large Rectangle - center->In most cases this procedure don’t present the effects mentioned above so patients are usually discharged in the same day of the surgery. Laparoscopy is used by the medical researchers to diagnose or just to observe a certain problem but it can also have an operative function: doctors can correct the abnormalities discovered during this preventive operation. This procedure can be used in diagnosing a prostate cancer, though the familiar tests used for the early detection of the tumor are the screening tests and the prostate biopsy; it can also be used in treating the cancer and the success rate between laparoscopy and prostatectomy is rather similar, the main difference being that the first operation is minimally invasive and assisted by a robot. If the surgeon has more experience with this kind of procedure then it is a certain fact that the stay in the hospital will be shorter than expected.

Robotic operations such as laparoscopy have their disadvantages because, in the case of the prostate cancer, doctors need to feel the cancer with their own hands for a better medical intervention. If you have doubts about this procedure there are some other treatment options: prostatectomy, mentioned above, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, cryotherapy and hormone therapy; you should be aware about the fact that each treatment has its side effects. The surgical removal of the prostate may cause some local bleeding, almost one per cent among men with ages between sixty five and sixty nine will die because of the operation, incontinence in about four point five per cent of the cases or impotence in about thirty five point five per cent cases.

The radiation therapy is the second most popular form of conventional treatment and its side effect are impotence or incontinence. The androgen deprivation therapy has some serious side effects like impotence, breast enlargement and sometimes can cause cardiovascular diseases and in the worst case scenario, leading to death. Cryotherapy is a rather new medical treatment procedure and because of that its side effects are still under study. It may cause fistulas that leak urine, the blockage of the urethra, infections, and sometimes the freezing liquid inserted in the gland with the purpose of killing the cancerous cells will give ineffective results. As you can see, almost all conventional treatment procedures have some side effects. It is important to stay informed about what new operations are experimented and discovered and what is the best procedure in your case. The complications encountered when laparoscopy is done should not scare you, but if you are doubtful about the effectiveness of this procedure then you must ask the doctor for an advice.

“Cancer” is the term used in defining the abnormal condition of the rapid and uncontrollable growth of the body cells and the apparition of the cancerous cells.

The prostate cancer is one type of cancer affecting the prostate gland, found only in the male reproductive system; this organ is located near the rectum, below the bladder, it surrounds the urethra and is responsible with the making of the seminal fluid.

Without any early symptoms, the recently formed tumor can only be discovered with the help of the recommended screening tests and if the existence of the tumor is confirmed but it is left untreated then 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.

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Usually the results of the treatments may vary according to how far spread is the cancer in the organism and this spreading process could be done by invading the neighboring tissues, spreading through the lymph vessels and lymph nodes or by traveling through the bloodstream to far away tissues.

With the Gleason scale or the staging process, the doctors will determine how advanced is your cancer, the tumor usually being organ-confined, locally advanced or metastatic, the advanced form of prostate cancer.

In this stage, the symptoms tend to appear and their aggressiveness will most likely affect the peaceful life of the patient; the most common prostate cancer symptoms are frequent urination or weak urine stream, burning or pain while urinating, blood in urine or semen, painful ejaculation, back pains, stiffness, ache; in the its advanced forms the cancer may cause bone pain, it could also spread fast to the lungs and liver causing coughing and chest pains, yellow skin and pain in the abdomen. If the spinal cord is affected by the prostate cancer it can cause a compression of the spine, resulting in weakness or fecal and urinary incontinence.

Treatments are sure available but unfortunately the results are less effective if the prostate cancer is metastatic. Just to give a small example: surgery, commonly known as prostatectomy, usually has little worth in treating the advanced forms of prostate cancer if the cancerous cells already reached the surrounding areas of the prostate gland.

I shall also enlist the other therapy forms used as treatments to prevent the growth of the tumor or to increase the life expectancies for those diagnosed with metastatic cancer: radiation therapy, done by damaging the DNA of the cancerous cells with implanted radioactive seeds or an external beam radiation, cryotherapy or the freezing of the prostate, chemotherapy, hormone therapy also known as androgen deprivation therapy, limiting the release of the testosterone in the organism.

There is also a procedure known as watchful waiting or expectant management defined as the monitoring of the evolution of the prostate cancer without prescribing any treatment to it and based only on maintaining a strict nutritional diet.

The metastatic cancer is something to be feared of because it is a rough way of showing just how vulnerable is the human body and how little does the medical community know about it and the way it’s functioning.

The keyword to avoid this rough disease is prevention and to always seek for a doctor’s counseling.