PROSTATE CANCER

Appearing on the market or taking male hormone injections to enhance male glory advertisements, doctors thought that this law not feasible, it may become a high risk of prostate disease, suffering from prostate cancer to attempt to improve male sexual hormone function will increase the illness.

Prostate cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy with almost the same, about 2% of cancer BPH will deteriorate; More men over the age of 50 suffering from prostate cancer, early symptoms not obvious, but the tumor growing on the oppression of the surrounding organs, caused difficulty urinating, urinary frequency and nocturia, residual urine flu hematuria, will transfer serious lymph nodes, bones, but as long as early detection, early treatment, the survival rate higher than many other cancers.

Many patients may be given the long-term local control, or even cured. But the administration can be a lot of factors such as tumor grade, stage and PSA levels before treatment, even for a partial clinical prostate cancer patients. Tumor-level low, confined to the organ survival rate of patients with prostate and substance cancer is the same age group. some localized prostate cancer in elderly patients, especially well-differentiated, may need treatment (for example, be observed), the risk of death due to other causes than of prostate cancer. but most patients choose radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy. For more age Light patients, radical prostatectomy may be the best, be a long life expectancy, the risk of urinary incontinence in the smallest (about 2%). about 50% of patients can maintain erectile function (eg, at least you can retain a nerve plexus). radiotherapy can have similar results, and special other treatment in patients with low levels of PSA. the standard radiation therapy in general to seven weeks with 70Gy (7000rad) exposure. 3D technology to safely increase the exposure amounted to CAT (8000rad), preliminary data show that higher local control rate. interstitial radiation (radioactive seed implantation) it had the same effect yet to be assessed.