They say there is no cure for cancer, and perhaps they are right to some degree; with the level of variation that the disease presents, the number of casualties documented annually in the United States alone, with the different approaches to dealing with the condition, and considering the variety of the results that are often obtained, of course there is no cure for cancer; at least not a definitive one, and certainly not yet. But I suppose in some sense you could argue that prostate cancer is indeed curable. This might be startling to you if you were just privy to the unfriendly statistics of the malignancy of the prostate
- Ninth most common cancer in the world
- Second most common cancer among men in the United States, after skin cancer
- Second most common cause of cancer deaths among men in the United States, after lung cancer
- Over 230,000 new cases diagnosed annually
- Over 27,000 casualties from prostate cancer alone each year
- No early symptoms.
Facts like that would scare anybody, especially the symptoms part. I mean, how can you cure a disease that has no symptoms; how on earth do you know that you have the man killer disease?
Simple and straightforward enough questions; the statement was not that there are no symptoms for prostate cancer, but that there are no early symptoms of the melanoma. that means that during the initial incidence and development of the disease, you won’t even feel a thing. And if you go on living your merry life from there, you would only be giving it a chance to fester, and grow, and metastasize; and kill you. Perish the thought!
So, question: what are signs and symptoms of prostate cancer?
Answer: Pain, slow and gradually building pain that eventually gets to be blinding; and bleeding…
During development, prostate cancer often eventually causes difficult or painful urination, which may become frequent urination, especially at night; and also blood in the urine or semen. There are times when you might feel some pain also in your lower back, your pelvis, and/or in your upper thighs; this would indicate that the mutated prostate cancer cells have eventually metastasized to your ribs, pelvis, and other bones, which is not too uncommon. You may end up with some degree of urinary dysfunction and also some problems with sexual function and performance, such as difficulty achieving erection or painful ejaculation. And finally, late stage or advanced prostate cancer can cause metastatic prostate tumors in your spine to compress your spinal cord and result in leg weakness and urinary and fecal incontinence.
However, these happen when you allow the disease to get beyond the initial early stage, which you must not. find a way; get in touch with your doctor as soon as you are at increased risk, and have yourself tested to see if there is a growing tumor inside your prostate gland. You are at increased risk of prostate cancer when you cross the forty year old mark.