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.

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.