Thursday, June 24, 2010

What happens when you get prostate cancer

What happens when you get prostate cancer?
What are the symptoms? And how is it treated?
Cancer - 7 Answers
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symptoms are hard to pinpoint, most common symptom is frequent urination, unsteady stream, and just aren't able to finish when you go. sometimes painful, even blood in urine. most of the time it's detected by doing a prostate exam or a blood test for prostate specific antigen. prostate cancer is a relatively slow progressing cancer, sometimes taking up to 5-10 years (depending on the specific kind of prostate cancer) before it starts to move to other parts of the body. Many men get this in their 60's and 70's, so they choose to not treat it at all. Many of those people take prostate cancer to the grave (they die of something else, probably Cardiovascular problems) for treatment, they can remove the part of the prostate that has the cancer or simply take out the whole prostate. They can also give you hormone therapy to slow the progression of the cancer. cancer treatments don't always succeed, so like i said ealier, the risk from surgery might be greater then the actual immediate risk from the cancer, so many men choose to not have treatment done.
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first you'd get like a prostate mass which results to painful urination, blood tinged urine and also sometimes painful defecation(pooping). if it develops to cancer then it gets a lot worse..cancer kills your body. it spreads and takes over normal cell and tissue.prostate cancer could metastasize(spread) to the colon, urinary tract, and even other parts of the body. men should be checked at least once a year at the age of 45 and above--cant remember..
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My Dad got it about 18 months ago and has since Died. But, that's because he was stubborn and stupid and refused to take any action at all to try and fight it. He turned down all medical treatment because he was embarrassed and ashamed to show his private area to medical personnel for treatment. He was told that he had an extremely good chance of survival if he would allow them to remove a section of his prostate. But he let his so called pride take him to the grave. As far as the symptoms, I'm sorry i don't know what they are as every time I tried to talk to my Dad about it he wouldn't. My point is, this question should be posed to a medical professional as this is a very serious condition that is life threatening and don't let embarrassment stop you. Do what you have to do and then go on with the rest of your life. Good Luck, Sincerely James N
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Very often there are no symptoms - luckily there are far better testing options (PSA in blood) and treatment has come a long way. Good luck.
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Generally men feel the need to urinate more, may have some sexual problems, etc. Most don't know unless they get an exam and the doctor finds enlargement, then they get an ultrasound and biopsy to make sure. Generally treatment includes removing the prostate surgically, including any lymph nodes around it that may look suspicious, then they implant radiation seeds into the area to treat it with radiation. My dad had it done last year. He is doing pretty well now, although he still has some incontinence problems. I was surprised that they went through his stomach to get the prostate, not through the area between his scrotum and anus, since that's where it is - I guess the healing in that area is not very quick.
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There's some general information on cancer and cancer treatments that you might find useful at http://www.cancerdoubts.com
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With my prostate cancer, there were no symptoms. The cancer was discovered by a PSA blood test. They did a biopsy and the report came came back positive. I am lucky I had a good urologist, and when he removed my prostate and seminal vessels, he got all of my cancer. I have been cancer free for four years now.




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