Tests used to tell if prostate cancer has spread

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Tests used to tell if prostate cancer has spread

Prostate cancer, like all cancers, has the potential to spread or metastasize to other parts of the body.  If and when it does, it will typically affect the structures within the immediate area.  Most likely prostate cancer will spread to the bones or lymph nodes near the prostate.  Other structures of the body it could possibly spread to include the seminal vesicles, urinary bladder, liver, intestines, and rarely, the brain.

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Broccoli in The Battle Against Prostate Cancer

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Broccoli in The Battle Against Prostate Cancer

What if you could suppress the genes which “turned on” prostate cancer? What if you could suppress the prostate cancer genes by eating certain foods?

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Your prostate – a very busy gland

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Your prostate – a very busy gland

Ask any man “what does your prostate gland do” and some may be able to answer with one or two functions while others may simply shrug their shoulders indicating “I don’t know.”  What may surprise many men is the variety and number of tasks this small gland performs.  The size of a walnut, the prostate gland is located in front of the rectum and just below the bladder surrounding the urethra.  Over the course of a day, it has plenty of things to do keeping it busy.

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Vasectomies & Prostate Cancer – Revisited

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Vasectomies & Prostate Cancer – Revisited

Doctors continue to study the relationship between vasectomies and prostate cancer risk. And men, it should come as no surprise, continue to pay close attention.

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Frequent Ejaculation vs Prostate Cancer

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Frequent Ejaculation vs Prostate Cancer

For men who want to take prostate health into their own hands, have we got news for you! Studies indicate the more you ejaculate, the lower is your risk of prostate cancer.

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Common reasons for elevated PSA levels besides prostate cancer

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Common reasons for elevated PSA levels besides prostate cancer

Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland in men.  A man may have a PSA blood test measuring the level of PSA in a man’s blood with the results reported as nanograms of PSA per milliliter (ng/ml) of blood.  A normal PSA level is considered to be between 1.0 and 4.0 ng/ml.  If the number is above 4.0, the level is considered abnormal or elevated.

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Men – minimize your risk of prostate cancer

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Men – minimize your risk of prostate cancer

Everyone most likely knows of a man in their life who has had prostate cancer.  What many people may not be as aware of is just how common it is.  Other than non-melanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States. It is also the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, with lung cancer ranked as the leading cause.

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My prostate needle biopsy came back “atypical.” What does that mean?

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My prostate needle biopsy came back “atypical.” What does that mean?

Biopsies from any area of the body can always make one nervous. The waiting and wondering of what the results will reveal can be worrisome to say the least. For men, just the thought of having a prostate needle biopsy can be anxiety driven due to the location of the body. 

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Prostate Cancer Patients Healing Faster

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Prostate Cancer Patients Healing Faster

A breakthrough in radiation therapy may cut down the time localized prostate cancer patients spend healing.

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Radiation therapy for treating prostate cancer

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Radiation therapy for treating prostate cancer

One of the methods of treatment for prostate cancer is with radiation therapy. This can be used alone or in combination with hormonal treatment for treating prostate cancer. Radiation is sometimes used after prostate cancer surgery as another option to destroy any remaining cancer cells and to relive pain from metastatic cancer.  Using radiation is most effective when the cancer has not spread beyond the prostate even though it can still be used if the cancer has spread to other nearby tissue. 

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4 foods to avoid for prostate health

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4 foods to avoid for prostate health

Any man who wants to have a healthy prostate should pay careful attention to his food choices.  Choose too many of not-so-healthy foods and his prostate may pay the price.  Men are notorious for loving their big beefy steaks, triple bacon cheeseburgers and fried foods which do no favors for his prostate health. 

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The Future of Cancer Diagnosis: Liquid Biopsies

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The Future of Cancer Diagnosis: Liquid Biopsies

The new procedure makes use of a breakthrough in nanotechnology in the form of a postage stamp-sized chip containing wires 1,000 times thinner than human hairs.

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