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You can prevent prostate diseases
According to statistics from the Mexican Social Security Institute, 60 percent of men over 50 years have a good chance of seeing your prostate affected with any disease. Even in this gland cancer is the second cause of cancers in men.
But it usually attacks only the cancer, other diseases common in the male audience is prostatitis and obstructive prostatic hyperplasia. The first is a serious inflammation of the prostate and may be caused by an infection or sexually transmitted disease. For its part, prostatic hyperplasia occurs when there are changes in the body due to advanced age.
Symptoms that have a patient with these diseases are: urinary urgency, pressure reduction when missionary, pain or burning when passing urine, blood in semen or urine and severe pain in the lower back.
These diseases can be treated and detected sooner is better. However, many men refuse to get tested for fear of the exploration is done in the year. This bias must be discarded because it is the only way to prevent diseases of the prostate.
15 percent of cancers in men is prostate
In Europe alone there were more than 214 000 cases of prostate cancer . Statistics show that this type of cancer is the third most popular among men over 60 years. However, the prostate cancer is curable if detected early.
There are four levels of prostate cancer ranging from T1 to T4. The medical and scientific advances have helped the majority of cancers detected to be made while still in stage T1 and T2, suggesting treatment by radical prostatectomy, ie complete removal of the prostate. This form of healing has great success in patients.
However, the person may be a radical prostatectomy, the cancer must have been caught early and it is therefore recommended, and almost demanding that men over 45 years made regular prostate exams so that you can identify if there is evil.
Unfortunately, radical prostatectomy is erectile dysfunction sequel to the patient. But new technologies are allowing this complication is increasingly reduced to 10 or 15 percent of those treated.
New test to detect bladder cancer
Researchers from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Puigvert Foundation promoted a novel procedure to locate the bladder cancer based on a urine sample. The sample, according to experts, is more reliable and effective than existing and would go on sale in 2013.
Scientists say that this test is more reliable than those that exist today, because it is capable of recognizing up to 12 genes related to the pathology and 2 which are closely linked to the likely aggressiveness of the tumor , a combination that really has a sensitivity high and specific in diagnosing bladder cancer. Studies currently underway, however, are able to identify only a few genes or only one.
Bladder cancer after the prostate is the second most common tumor in the genitourinary tract, affecting more than 15000 people per year in Spain.
In the course of the disease, people with bladder cancer should undergo an average of 20 cystoscope. This procedure is not pleasant or comfortable, since it consists in entering with a camera through the urethra to examine the bladder and examine the evolution of cancer.
Finally, we mention that the chief of Urology at the Hospital Clinic, Antonio Alcaraz, said to be ratified by the values of this study with about a thousand patients in three hospitals in Spain, one Dutch and one from Austria.
What Is Prostate Gland?
It is a malignant tumor that develops in the prostate gland. It consists of an uncontrolled growth of prostate cells. This makes, among other things, the prostate, by its position, press on the bladder and urethra by preventing the normal passage of urine.
Most prostate cancers grow very slowly, although some do it quickly, they can even spread.
The prostate is a glandular organ, the size of a walnut, found in men and located around the bladder neck and part of the urethra, in front of the rectum. Secretes fluid, white and viscous, which is mixed with sperm at the time of ejaculation.
There are lymph vessels surrounding the prostate and that lead to pelvic lymph nodes.
When a prostate cancer, there is the possibility that cancer cells spreading through lymphatic vessels and affect the lymph and then to every body.
Prostate Cancer
It is a malignant tumor that develops in the prostate gland. It consists of uncontrolled growth of prostate cells. This means, among other things, that the prostate, because of its location, press on the bladder and urethra by preventing the normal urine output.
Most prostate cancers grow very slowly, although some do it quickly, they can even spread.
The prostate is a glandular organ, the size of a walnut, found in men and situated around the neck of the bladder and urethra, in front of the rectum. Some liquid, whitish and viscous, which is mixed with sperm at the time of ejaculation.
There are lymph vessels surrounding the prostate and that lead to pelvic lymph nodes.
When a prostate cancer, there is the possibility that cancer cells spreading through lymphatic vessels and affect the lymph and from there to anywhere on the body.