Articles About Prostate Cancer

1. 10 Early Signs of Prostate Cancer That Often Go Unnoticed

   Article - Sadly, many men don't find out they have prostate cancer until the cancer has spread, making it more difficult to treat. This is because in the early stages, prostate cancer often doesn't have many symptoms. That's a problem because prostate cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in American men, after skin cancer...

2. Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer

   Article - Produced mainly in the testicles, the male hormone testosterone causes prostate cancer cells to grow. Reducing testosterone levels can make the prostate cancer shrink and become less active.

3. What to Expect After Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

   Article - Talk with your doctor the side effects you might have based on the type of hormone treatment you choose.

4. Goal of Watchful Waiting for Prostate Cancer

   Article - The goal of watchful waiting is to delay other treatment for prostate cancer until, or unless, it shows signs that it's harming you. It can be the first choice for treatment if your cancer doesn't pose a serious threat to your quality or length of life.

5. Making the Decision to Have Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer

   Article - Right now most doctors don't recommend cryotherapy as the first choice for treatment. This treatment is more difficult if you've already had a TURP procedure. Your doctor may suggest it as a salvage therapy. That means it is used after another treatment that hasn't worked...

6. I've Just Been Told I Have Prostate Cancer

   Article - Prostate cancer is cancer that begins in your prostate. Only men have a prostate gland, so only men get this kind of cancer.

7. Questions to Ask About Treatment for Prostate Cancer

   Article - At first, the information you learn about treatment options may seem overwhelming. You may ease the stress by allowing yourself the time to gather as much information as possible about your disease and its treatment. That way, you can discuss the issues with your doctors, nurses, and loved ones.

8. Staging of Prostate Cancer

   Article - When prostate cancer is diagnosed, tests will be performed to determine how much cancer is present, and if the cancer has spread from the prostate to other parts of the body. This is called staging, and is an important step toward planning a treatment program.

9. Tests You May Need Once You Know You Have Prostate Cancer

   Article - If a biopsy shows you have cancer, your doctor may do more tests to see exactly where it is, how big it is, and if it is in more than one place. This is key to choosing the best treatment for you. Depending on certain factors, some men may need more than one test, while others may not need any before treatment...

10. What Can I Do if I'm at Risk for Prostate Cancer?

    Article - If you have any of the factors that put you at risk for prostate cancer, what can you do? The best thing is to try to avoid the risks that you can. There are also lifestyle changes you can make that may help reduce your risk. The role these factors play in helping to prevent prostate cancer is still being studied...

11. Prostate Cancer Prevention

    Article - Cancerprevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.

12. Statistics About Prostate Cancer

    Article - Some people use statistical reports to try to figure out their chance of getting cancer. Or they use them to try to figure out their chance of being cured. Statistics show what happens with large groups of people. Because no two people are alike, statistics can't be used to know or predict what will happen to a particular person...

13. Questions for Men About Prostate Cancer

    Article - Q. What is prostate cancer?

14. Prostate Cancer Treatment

    Article - There are different types of treatment for patients with prostate cancer.

15. What to Know About Your Treatment Choices for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Researchers are continually finding new ways to treat prostate cancer. Men diagnosed with it now have more hope for survival than ever before.

16. Surgery for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The following are some of the different surgical options used to treat prostate cancer:

17. What to Expect After Internal Radiation (Brachytherapy) Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - These are some common side effects of internal radiation during the first week or so after the procedure.

18. Prostate Cancer Overview

    Article - The five-year survival rate for men diagnosed with prostate tumors discovered at these stages is 99 percent.

19. What to Know About Lymph Node Biopsies: How to Tell if Prostate Cancer Has Spread

    Article - Prostate cancer that has spread needs to be treated differently than if it hasn't spread. For instance, men whose cancer has spread usually do not have surgery to remove the prostate. So before you can begin your treatment, your doctor needs to learn whether or not your cancer has spread.

20. Can I Survive Prostate Cancer? What Is My Prognosis?

    Article - A prognosis is a statement about the prospect of surviving and recovering from a disease. It may sound hard to ask, “Can I survive this?” But it’s a question most men have when they learn they have prostate cancer. Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy answer.

21. Treatment Options for Local Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer is confined to the prostate or has only spread to nearby areas, it is called early-stage prostate cancer. It’s also called local prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have local prostate cancer.

22. Making the Decision to Have Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may suggest radiation treatment if any of these statements is true for you.

23. Goal of Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Radical prostatectomy is the name of the surgery that removes a cancerous tumor. Its goal is to cure you of cancer. It involves removing all of the following:

24. Prostate Cancer FAQ

    Article - Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about prostate cancer.

25. For Family Members Coping With Prostate Cancer

    Article - The following are some suggestions for helping the men in your life who may have or could have prostate cancer at some point in time:

26. What Happens During Internal Radiation Therapy (Brachytherapy) for Prostate Cancer

    Article - For this type of radiation, your doctor uses a needle to place tiny radioactive pellets into your prostate. These pellets are also called seeds. The seeds can be temporary or permanent. They're so small that you won't feel them. The procedure requires only one treatment.

27. The Different Ways You Can Get Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Here are some of the common ways your doctor can give you hormone therapy.

28. How Does My Doctor Know I Have Prostate Cancer?

    Article - If you're having prostate-cancer-like symptoms, your doctor will want to know why. Your doctor is likely to ask you questions about your:

29. What to Know About Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Hormone treatment is one way to treat prostate cancer. It does not cure it.

30. Coping With Prostate Cancer

    Article - A diagnosis of cancer has a profound impact on one's life, particularly in the case of prostate cancer. Listed in the directory below you will find some additional information regarding coping with prostate cancer - for those men and families affected by the disease, for which we have provided a brief overview...

31. Can I Be Cured of Prostate Cancer?

    Article - It’s normal to worry about what prostate cancer will mean for you and your family. You may have questions like these: What are my chances of being cured? How long will I live? The answers to these questions are called your prognosis. Your prognosis is the likely outcome of your cancer. Your doctor l looks at some of these outcomes when making your prognosis...

32. Common Side Effects After Surgery for Prostate Cancer

    Article - It will take you a few weeks to feel better after surgery. Here are some of the things you can expect during your recovery.

33. Tests That Help Evaluate Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor took a biopsy from your prostate to know that you have cancer.

34. Making the Decision to Have Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may recommend hormone treatment if any of these applies to you.

35. Understanding the Gleason Score and Your Grade of Prostate Cancer

    Article - Prostate cancer acts differently in each man. Grade is the word doctors use to describe how the cancer cells look under a microscope. The pathologist who looked at the cells obtained from your biopsy determines your cancer's grade. The most common system for grading prostate tumors is the Gleason scale...

36. How Your Doctor Uses Biopsies to Diagnose Prostate Cancer

    Article - A biopsy is the only way to know for sure if you have cancer.

37. What to Expect After External Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Radiation therapy affects normal cells as well as cancer cells. Thus the side effects of radiation depend on the amount and the type of radiation you get. Be sure to let your doctor know of any side effects you have.

38. Treatment Options for Metastatic or Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer has spread to places in your body that aren't close to your prostate, it's called advanced prostate cancer. It's also called metastatic prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have advanced prostate cancer.

39. How to Get Involved in Your Treatment Choices for Prostate Cancer

40. What Happens During Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - How often you get chemotherapy treatments depends on the type of chemotherapy that you will receive.

41. What Tests Help My Doctor Find Prostate Cancer?

    Article - To find out whether you have prostate cancer, your doctor will ask you questions and run some tests. You will talk about the following issues:

42. Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer

    Article - A risk factor is anything that may increase a person's chance of developing a disease. It may be an activity, such as smoking, diet, family history, or many other things. Different diseases, including cancers, have different risk factors.

43. Cancer Survivors: 8 Lessons We Wish We'd Known

    Article - Most people who have or care for someone with cancer learn hard lessons only by experience. Here, eight lessons about cancer you can learn early now.

44. Screening for Prostate Cancer

    Article - More men die each year of prostate cancer (an estimated 27,000 annually) than of any other cancer except lung cancer. But not every man who has this disease (about 192,000 annually) is in danger of dying of it. And sometimes the treatment can produce side effects that may be more troublesome than the cancer...

45. Genetics and Cancer - The Genetics of Prostate Cancer

    Article - According to the National Cancer Institute, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. The risk is even higher in African-American men.

46. Am I At Risk for Prostate Cancer?

47. Psychosocial Factors

    Article - Psychosocial factors are those factors that affect a person psychologically or socially.

48. What to Expect After Radical Prostatectomy

    Article - Surgery to remove the prostate lasts from 1.5 to 4 hours. After the prostate and other structures are removed, your surgeon reattaches the remaining urethra to your bladder. While you’re still sleeping, your doctor will place a small tube for draining urine, called a catheter, in your penis. It willll stay in place for a few weeks...

49. Common Side Effects After Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Here's a list of common side effects that men with prostate cancer may have when getting hormone therapy.

50. Prostate Cancer: Diet and Prevention

51. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer

    Article - It's likely that you will have physical concerns since your cancer may cause symptoms and your treatment may cause side effects. The side effects depend on your treatment, and that depends on how much the cancer has spread from your prostate...

52. Goal of Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, the drugs also harm healthy cells. Right now chemotherapy does not cure prostate cancer. But there are drugs that ease symptoms such as bone pain. Chemotherapy can also help decrease PSA levels and reduce the amount of cancer...

53. What to Expect After Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The side effects of chemotherapy are different for everyone. They depend on these things.

54. Chemotherapy For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancerous cells. Specific treatment for prostate cancer will be determined by your physician based on:

55. Clinical Trials For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Clinical trials are studies, managed by government agencies, educational institutions, private not-for-profit organizations, or commercial businesses, to develop, produce, and evaluate the effectiveness of new treatments and preventive therapies for diseases.

56. What to Know About Combination Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - You may get more than one treatment for prostate cancer. If so, it’s called combination treatment. It’s also called multimodality treatment. To treat prostate cancer, you may have more than one of these treatments:

57. Signs and Symptoms of Prostate Cancer

    Article - There are usually no specific signs or symptoms of early prostate cancer. A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and digital rectal exam (DRE) can provide the best chance of identifying prostate cancer in its earliest stages, but these tests can have drawbacks. Talk to your physician about whether prostate cancer screening is right for you...

58. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Article - It’s likely that you will have physical concerns since your cancer may cause symptoms and your treatment may cause side effects. The side effects depend on your treatment, and that depends on how much the cancer has spread from your pros...

59. Tell Your Healthcare Team How You Feel During Treatment for Prostate Cancer

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62. What Happens During External Beam Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - You can receive external beam radiation treatment (EBRT) as an outpatient. That means you may have it at a hospital or a clinic, but you don't have to stay the night. Usually you'll get treatment 5 days a week. And the treatment will continue for 6, 7, 8, or 12 weeks, depending on the type and dose of EBRT you get...

63. What Happens During a Screening for Prostate Cancer?

    Article - If you and your doctor decide you should be screened, you'll probably have one or both of these tests.

64. Cancer Signs and Symptoms

    Article - Read our informative cancer guides to learn about cancer symptoms and how to recognize cancer signs at Caring.com.

65. Men: Cancer Symptoms You're Most Likely to Ignore

    Article - Many men unknowingly miss cancer symptoms, relying only on checkups, colonoscopies, and other tests. Learn 25 cancer symptoms men commonly ignore.

66. 7 Things Your Hands Say About Your Health

    Article - The state of your hands and fingernails can tell you surprising things about your overall health. Here, seven clues your hands reveal about health.