Prostate-Specific Antigen or PSA is a material that the cells of prostate are producing. It is found mostly in semen, but a tiny bit of it can be found in the blood. Elevated degree of this substance may or may not be an indication that there is a prostate cancer or an enlargement of prostate called prostatitis on the man individual. (more…)
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Reasons For Possible Changes In The Actual PSA Levels
Monday, October 10th, 2011Two Types Of Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Saturday, October 8th, 2011Radiotherapy is one of the many treatment options prostate cancer individual has to choose. This is a method that uses high energy x-rays or any other types or energy. It aims to kill the most cancers cells or to keep the most cancers cells from growing back again. (more…)
Possible Side Effects After Prostate Cancer Therapy
Saturday, October 8th, 2011There are various treatments in prostate cancer. All these especially the radiotherapy is aiming to destroy only the malignant tumor or the most cancers cells. Most of the time though not only the cancer cells are destroyed but the healthy cells and tissue. (more…)
Prostate Specific Antigen – Prostate Cancer
Friday, October 7th, 2011One important substance that is produced by the prostate Antigen may be the PSA or the Prostate Gland Antige. This substance is commonly based in the semen but a small quantity could have leaked in our bloodstream. A blood test can be done to determine the amount of PSA in our bloodstream. It is usually measured in nanograms for each millimeter of blood. Males with normal prostate will have fewer than 4 nanograms, higher than this particular reading would mean having a cancer of the prostate. (more…)
Stages Of Prostrate Cancer
Friday, October 7th, 2011After you have been diagnose having a prostate cancer, the next step would be to give you a series of test to find out if the cancer cells are just contained in the prostate or has already spread to other parts of the body. The process of finding is known as staging. (more…)
The Radiation Treatment For Prostate cancer
Monday, October 3rd, 2011Most men are developing the enlarged prostate at one point of their lives. Symptoms of prostate enlargement include difficulties at the beginning of urination, frequent urination, and weaker flow of urine. Men suffering these symptoms must seek medical help to make sure that only the enlargement of prostate is the problem and not the prostate cancer. (more…)
Different Stages Of Prostate Cancer
Friday, September 23rd, 2011It is very essential to recognize the development of the condition once a patient has been discovered with prostate cancer so that accurate treatments could be prescribed. Staging is the process of the determining the progress of the cancer and the degree of the spread of the most cancers. (more…)
PSA Test
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011PSA Test
Prostate Cancer survivor, Nelson man Lee Nelson a retired doctor, said that Prostate Cancer is an’insidious and sneaky’ disease. in the detection of prostate cancer men must be much more proactive. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer
in 1997 after his first routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. He was in incredibly good shape for 55 and had no signs or symptoms of the cancer that was already spreading through his body. (more…)
Prostate Cancer Survival Rates
Monday, September 12th, 2011Survival rates of prostate cancer signify the chances the patient has to survive the ailment for the specific length of time. The rates are definite signs. What would happen to the patient? They could predict best the chances of patients of what could happen to him, whenever any treatment plan is chosen, basing on what has occurred with a patients in the same situations. (more…)