Thursday, April 28, 2011

Is there a new way of diagnosing prostate cancer without doing the digital examination

Is there a new way of diagnosing prostate cancer without doing the digital examination?
I heard there was a recent development but I need to be sure.
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I believe there is a blood test to detect problems, but I dont think a doc would do the test without the digital exam. The digital exam checks for enlargement.
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digital exam is still the best way to detect prostate cancer. =)
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sure fire way to know is ask your doctor or a health professional. They could tell you if there is a better way of finding out.
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The other big way of screening for prostate cancer is testing for prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood. It is not a perfect screening test, but it does tend to be higher in patients who have prostate cancer than in patients without it. The sources below have more information about it.
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There appears to be other methods. See: http://www.yourhealthbase.com/prostate_cancer_detection.html
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Yes there is a new test but unfortunately it requires a digital exam. It measures the PCA3 gene that is expressed in the more aggressive prostate cancer tumors. Try this link: http://www.gen-probe.com/
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Yes there's a blood test. I had it done.
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Best known is PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test. It is done using a blood sample. However some prostate cancers do not cause a significant increase of blood PSA, that is why it is recommended to also do the digital exam.
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There are a couple of tests, but they are not sure if they are conclusive. Just in case - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since รข€“ more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider
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While the blood test PSA and digital rectal exams (DRE) are ways to Screen for prostate cancer, they are not diagnostic tests. The only way to diagnose prostate cancer is by a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy of the prostate. PSA and DRE's can be useful to detect if there are abnormalities that are suspicious for cancer, but they are far from perfect. PSA can be falsely elevated in people who have other inflammations or infections of the prostate.
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Where could I find a treatment center in the L.A area /South Bay?




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