Looking for Symptom Free Prostate Cancer:
As the name suggests it is a cancerous growth in the prostate, which is a gland forming part of the male reproductive system. Initially cancer is localized, which can spread to other parts of human body through a process called metastasis, with special possibility of affecting bones and lymph nodes in the region.
Prostate cancer is painful as well as poses difficulty in urination. It is hindrance in sexual intercourse with erectile dysfunction. Other symptoms appear during various stages of prostrate cancer.
The incidence of prostrate cancer in the global scenario has marked regional differences, with higher incidences among men over fifty years age in Europe and US in comparison to the population in south East Asia. The occurrence of prostrate cancer is very common and it remains symptom free resulting into no treatment.
Because the progression of this cancer is very slow, the affected men in their old age ultimately die of other conditions, when metastasis has taken place of other conditions like heart, blood vascular disease or pneumonia etc.
The causes of prostrate cancer range from hereditary to one’s dietary habits. It is possible to identify a prostrate cancer by it’s symptoms and carrying out physical examination. Other methods of cancer detection by prostrate specific antigen or biopsy.
Suspicion of prostate cancer can be confirmed by biopsy of prostrate tissue and it’s microscopic examination. To further find out whether the cancer is localized or metastasis has taken place help of CT scan and bone scan is advised,
The various treatment options for prostrate cancer can be radiation therapy, chemotherapy, administration of hormones, cryosurgery and high intensity focused ultrasound or radical surgery depending on the state of cancer and objective of the treatment, based on the age, the general health of the person, the degree of metastasis, which has taken place besides the initial response to the treatment.
The resulting benefits vis-à-vis the potential of harmful effects, survival of the patient with quality of life is considered, while deciding the treatment option.
