Five Important Facts Abount Prostate Cancer You Should Know

Five Important Facts Abount Prostate Cancer You Should Know

The trends of prostate cancer cases tends to increase from years to years. But thanks to medical knowledges and technologies the change of survive of the prostate cancer patients recently increasing. That fact is only one of several facts about prostate cancer you should know. The facts are:

1. the risk factors of prostate cancer are heredity and age. People who have families or relatives has cancer tend to have risk of prostate cancer higher. The risk even higher to the people who have family or relatives with breast and or ovarian cancer. Though it’s debateble, some studies said that behavior such as sexual activity and consuming alcohol affecting the prostate cancer. Last but not least elderly people above 50 years old tends to have prostate cancer higher than youngest.
2. Prostate cancer staging divided into three type. The earliest type is local cancer. At this stage, the cancer cell has growns only on prostate. There are no sign of cancer detected outside of prostate. The next stage is locally advenced stage. The cancer cells of this stage has invading the organ around the prostate, such as seminal vesicle and rectum. The last stage is metatastic prostate cancer. At this stage, tne cancer cells has invading distant part of ous body, espescially lynph gland.
3. Since there is no specific symtoms of prostate cancer, detecting this cancer need several test, such as prostate spesific antigen blood test, digital rectal examination, biopsy, blood test, and bone and ct scan.
4. Most of prostate cancer cells grow slowly it’s give time to patients and doctors to choose the treatment. Several treatment option to deminished the cancer are surgery, radiotheraphy, surveilence, androgen deprivation theraphy, chemotheraphy, and cambination of those theraphy.
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