Knowledge is your best weapon for good prostate health and avoiding prostate cancer.
Some lifestyles, eating habits, and dietary supplements are thought to lead to lower levels of prostate cancer, as well as other cancers.
Nobody can guarantee prostate cancer prevention through behavior, diet, treatment, or medicine, but there things you can do to improve your odds.
There is some evidence that links exercise to better prostate health.
Exercise improves overall physical and mental... Read Full Story
The prostate is a glands with round cluster.
It is located at the bladder in the bottom side, about midway between base of the penis and the rectum.
The prostate encircles the urethra, the tube that expels urine from the bladder by way of the penis. The ping pong ball sized gland produces most of the fluid in semen.
Contraction of the muscles in the prostate squirt fluid from into the urethra tract during ejaculation. This fluid makes up the majority of the ejaculate and transports... Read Full Story
Providing Emotional Support For Prostate Cancer Patients
After colorectal and lung cancer, prostate cancer is the third killer cancer in the U.S. Current statistics reveal 1 out of 6 American men being diagnosed with prostate cancer in their life. Prostate cancer typically causes a lot of discomfort, with symptoms including blood in the urine, weakness and numbness in legs and feet, pain in the spine, ribs and other bones, and loss of bladder or bowel control. In the majority of cases... Read Full Story
First, if you are reading this you, like I, have had the unpleasant experience of being diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. Just like a diagnosis of breast cancer to a woman, prostate cancer to a man is devastating to hear and begins a long physical and emotional road to a life changing phase of life.
Allow me to make certain assumptions:
(1) You are alive and have survived. If you have just been diagnosed then this article, while informative, will be a bit premature. Yes, I know the issue... Read Full Story
Imagine walking into a lab in the lunch hour to undergo a clinical test for prostate cancer and coming out in just ten minutes with the result. Cut to reality. Scientists in Britain have developed a blood test which they claim can assess the level of a cancer marker, called Prostate Specific Antigen, in ten minutes.
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is a protein which leaks out of the prostate gland when it is damaged. A raised PSA level does not necessarily mean the patient has prostate... Read Full Story
