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.



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.