Questions about your prostate answered
Prostate health. If you're male, over 50 and health-conscious, you'll be concerned about it, and guess what? That's both normal and sensible, because changes in your prostate gland are a natural part of getting older, and it's only good common sense to inform yourself of any risks and steps you need to take to combat them.
Most of you have heard about enlarged prostate (prostatitis) and prostate cancer, but what are the symptoms of these diseases, and what treatments for prostate cancer are available? Can we take any steps to maintain our prostate health? Are there any foods to avoid or health supplements we should take?
This website will give you the basic information you need about what your prostate gland is, how it develops, what can go wrong, and what you can do about it. But don't forget, we're dealing with the dark side here: for the vast majority of us the more extreme consequences simply won't apply.
We all have prostate glands, and we all get older, but for most of us other factors, not our prostate, will be the eventual cause of our demise (hopefully at a ripe old age!).
What will you find on this site?
The information is split up into 7 sections:
You'll also find articles about different aspects of Prostate health, problems and treatments, and links to related websites and reference sources you may find helpful.
We also provide you with links to the latest information coming out about Prostate problems, including research developments into the treatment of Prostate cancer, chronic prostatitis and the symptoms of prostate disease.
Prostate Health News
- For Men, a Saving Surgery: Twenty-Five Years Ago, Patrick C. Walsh Devised a Prostate-Cancer Operation That Allowed ... (RedNova)
By Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer Apr. 30--In 1982, the surgical cure for prostate cancer was considered worse than the disease. Removing the prostate meant life-threatening bleeding, guaranteed impotence, and a 1 in 4 chance of incontinence.
- Women 'more distressed by prostate cancer' (Perth Now)
WOMEN are more distressed by prostate cancer than their male partners who are diagnosed with the disease, a study has found.
- The Risk Of Renal Impairment In Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases Treated With ... (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com- Nearly one-quarter of prostate cancer (CaP) patients treated with zoledronic acid (ZA) suffer renal impairment according to a report by Dr. Oh and colleagues in the online version of Cancer.ZA is an intravenous bisphosphonate given to decrease skeletal related events in CaP patients with bone metastases. [click link for full article]
- Cesium-131 From IsoRay Medical (TM), Inc. Established as a Front Line Treatment for Early Stage Prostate Cancer ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----Investigators of a recent multi-institutional trial, led by principal investigator Bradley Prestidge, conclude that Cesium-131, a medical isotope used in low dose brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer, "... has come into widespread use; and the clinical results of this trial are mature enough to be of immediate, important, practical use to practitioners."
- EPCA-2 testing more accurate way to identify cancer in the prostate (News-Medical-Net)
New studies of a blood protein recently identified at Johns Hopkins, early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2), may change the way men are screened for prostate cancer - a disease that kills tens of thousands of men every year.
