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Prostate Cancer In Men

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The prostate is a gland only found in males. It sits below the urinary bladder and in front of the rectum. As males age the prostate changes with it , it grows rapidly during puberty, filed by the rise in male hormones such are testosterone .The prostate is usually stay around the same size or grows slowly in adults, as long as the hormones are present. In young men its about the size of a walnut but it can grow much larger in older men. The prostates job is to make some of the fluid that protects and nourishes sperm cells in semen, making the semen more liquid. Several types of cells are also found in the prostate, but almost all prostate cancers develop for the gland cells. its is called adenocarcinoma. Other types of cancer that also start …show more content…

About 1 man in 7 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Prostate cancer occurs mainly in older men about 6 cases in 10 are diagnosed in men aged 65 or older, and it is rare before age 40. The average age at the time of diagnosis is about 66. The American cancer association estimated about 220,800 new cases of prostate cancer and about 27,540 deaths this 2015. Prostate cancer occurs in African-American men of African ancestry than in men of other races. African-American men are also more than twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as white men. It also occurs less often in Asian-American and Hispanic/Latino men than in non-Hispanic whites. The reasons for these racial and ethnic differences are not clear. Although prostate cancer can be a serious disease, most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die from …show more content…

Prostate tumors typically require high doses of radiation to treat and because of their location, targeting them can be especially challenging. Due to the radiation to healthy tissues around prostate tumors can raise the risk of erectile dysfunction due to decreased testosterone levels, as well as urinary and rectal problems and gastrointestinal disorders. So all of these treatments comes with many risks/side effects and cannot guarantee that the radiation will eliminate everything, if prostate cancer comes back after radiation therapy, a second round of treatment with X-ray radiation may be too risky. This can lead to a difficult choice between giving less-than-optimal dose to the tumor which reduces the chance of a cure or give the tumor an ideal dose to with a higher risk of radiation to healthy tissues but greater chance of treatment and which type of treatment you would choose. There are many type of treatments depending on how early you catch the cancer or how advance it has become. Here in the US the most common was x-ray therapy and the most un-common was proton therapy. There were many benefits of advanced proton therapy treating prostate cancer include higher cure rates. In many cases, advanced proton therapy allows doctors to more selectively deliver high-dose radiation to cancerous prostate gland cells,

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