Cancer is an abnormal medical condition and a common disease, affecting a great part of the world’s population; there are many types of cancer but the most dangerous and frequent ones are the skin cancer, lung cancer and the prostate cancer in men.

The main cause for developing a prostate cancer can be the decreased level of testosterone, which is the male specific hormone, related to the unavoidable aging process or the already inherited family genes. Recent research studies have indicated that race is also to be blamed for the cancer of prostate, and the African-American men are generally more exposed to its effects while Asian men are less affected by this type of cancer. It is not even worth mentioning again the obvious fact that the living environment and the poor nutritional foods, the cigar smoke that can affect both smokers and non-smokers, and the large consumption of alcohol drinks can lead to the apparition of all sorts of diseases, not only cancer.


The positive thinking might help the patient make it through this difficult situation but the prognosis for the outcome of cancer tells us that there are two opposite treatment results: the patient will respond well to the prescribed prostate cancer treatment or the spreading process will just continue until another form of treatment can delay it or even stop it.

The androgen deprivation therapy or the hormone therapy is related with the health problems mentioned before and related with the levels of testosterone in the body, after a certain age. The hypothalamus is that part of the brain that monitors the levels of the hormones which are responsible for the good functioning of the organism and its growth activity so this part will always react by releasing the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) and the gonadotripin releasing hormone (GnRH) if the those hormone levels suddenly drop to dangerous levels.

Both radiation therapy and cryotherapy try to damage the cancerous cells either by affecting their DNA or by freezing them with freezing liquid inserted through a needle directly in the prostate gland; chemotherapy is a prostate cancer treatment therapy done only with the use of strong drugs such as anthracyclines and antimetabolites, topoisomerase inhibitors, alkylating agents and plant alkaloids, etc.

The conventional prostate cancer treatments can be complemented with the use of the alternative treatment, known for the herbal therapy and homeopathy. The unconventional method know as expectant management or the watchful waiting is claimed by both methods of treatment; doctors will recommend this method only if the cancer had reached its last stage and there is no chance to treat it or for men over seventy, if the malignant tumor was diagnosed at this late age.

The radiation therapy is probably the second most used form of treatment for the advanced type of prostate cancer or when the prostatectomy can’t be used anymore because the tumor is no longer organ-confined; the brachytherapy procedure is done by inserting in the prostate gland radioactive seeds and leave theme there until they decay while the proton beam radiation therapy is external and involves the concentration of proton laser beams directly on the cancer infected tissue regions. Both radiation therapies have their potential health damaging side-effects.


The screenings are the best method of diagnosing a prostate cancer. With the blood tests the medical specialist will establish the levels of the prostate specific antigen and the free testosterone, using and with the digital rectal examination, a physician might tell if a

hardness, specific to the existence of a malignant tumor in the infected gland, is felt or not. The results of the screening tests have to be interpreted and for a precise diagnose, the prostate biopsy is recommended, especially when the screening results show something abnormal.

The biopsy is the best method of detection available out there but sometimes it can be complemented with the nomogram, the radionuclide bone scans or the prostate mapping because the cancer should be diagnosed but also staged with the help of the TNM or the Whitmore-Jewett staging systems. Some other characteristics of that particular cancer can be discovered with the help of the popular Gleason scale, which is actually very important for prescribing the right treatment therapy.