Prostate surgeries offer men with prostate cancer an option that will allow them to live an active and comfortable life. Surgery is the oldest cancer treatment around, but it can only help men who have localized prostate cancer that has not metastasized and spread throughout the body. Sometimes the removal of the entire prostate gland [...]
Prostate cancer hormone therapy treatment is also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). When dealing with prostate cancer and ways to treat it, you want to concentrate on reducing the levels of male hormones in the body. These hormones include testosterone and dihydrotestoterone. While not directly causing prostate cancer, the hormones stimulate the malignant cells [...]
It sounds more than a little unlikely, but scientists at the National Institutes of Health and three major universities have found that the lycopene in fresh tomatoes does little or nothing to prevent prostate cancer, while spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, and lasagna do.
Scientists have known for a number of years that consumption of tomato products [...]
A new study of more than 7,000 men suggests that those with localized prostate cancer (which means the disease hasn’t spread beyond the prostate gland) who take cholesterol reducing statin drugs or anti-inflammatory agents live longer than men who don’t use these medications.
Some of the well known statins include Zocor, Lipitor, Pravachol, Crestor, Lescol, and [...]
My guy, the name John Fox may not ring bell to you, but if you are a man of 40 years and above, then you are advised to be interested in what John has discovered as an alternative treatment for prostate cancer. Men owe it to this man for how to respond pro-actively to Prostate [...]
Did you know that the growth of human cells is ongoing? This is so that the body can continuously replace dead cells with new cells to take over same functions as the dead cells once did in the same tissues of organs. This is the basis of body development and longevity.
But abnormalities do occur in [...]
There are some who opt for hormone treatment when it comes to prostrate cancer. The main idea of this kind of treatment is to bring down the testosterone production as this production in some cases stimulates the prostatic cells that are cancerous.
These prostatic cells that are cancerous only make the disease worse. And when it [...]
Aging today for a man brings with it one of modern day’s greatest fears: prostrate cancer. Senility isn’t as much as a worry as this condition is, not even death, when faced with the prospect of this disease. It is, essentially something that men are learning to expect as they grow older, pretty much like [...]
A person suffering form prostate cancer will be left with surgery as his last option. The whole idea of undergoing surgery for the removal of an organ from your body will be a little difficult to handle and go through. But one must consider this option, as it is the most effective way to deal [...]
When prostrate cancer strikes, the first thing one has to do is sit down and look at the many possible lines of treatment and which one will work best depending on the diagnosis of what stage the prostrate cancer has got to. Mot people look at a whole lot of options before radiation treatment is [...]
