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Management and Prevention of Ca prostate

Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance (monitoring for tumor progress or symptoms), surgery (i.e. radical prostatectomy), radiation therapy including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external beam radiation therapy, High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), chemotherapy, oral chemotherapeutic drugs (Temozolomide/TMZ), positron emission tomography, cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, or some combination.
Which option is best depends on the stage of the disease, the Gleason score, and the PSA level. Other important factors are the man's age, his general health, and his feelings about potential treatments and their possible side-effects. Because all treatments can have significant side-effects, such as erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence, treatment discussions often focus on balancing the goals of therapy with the risks of lifestyle alterations. Prostate cancer patients are strongly recommended to work closely with their urologist and use a combination of the treatment options when managing their prostate cancer

A comprehensive worldwide report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective compiled by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research reports a significant relation between lifestyle (including food consumption) and cancer prevention. Other research also supports this finding. Exercise and diet may help prevent prostate cancer to the same extent as medications such as alpha-blockers and 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors. The potential role of diet in preventing prostate cancer hsold be looked into.
CONCLUTION
I hope you don’t mind the medical and English mix up in the article, these was aimed at making the commalemal story to be more interesting for you. Thank god ca prostate is a disease of the old age, the Man most have completed his family size before then. Therefore, it does not really affect the reproduction and hence continuity of man existence is guaranteed.

Diagnosis of prostate ca

The only test that can fully confirm the diagnosis of prostate cancer is a biopsy, the removal of small pieces of the prostate for microscopic examination. However, prior to a biopsy, several other tools may be used to gather more information about the prostate and the urinary tract. Digital rectal examination may allow a doctor to detect prostate abnormalities. Cystoscopy shows the urinary tract from inside the bladder, using a thin, flexible camera tube inserted down the urethra. Transrectal ultrasonography creates a picture of the prostate using sound waves from a probe in the rectum
PSA [prostate specific antigen] can be used as a tumor maker to diagnose ca prosrate except Small cell carcinoma, a type of prostate cancer that cannot be diagnosed using the PSA. Other modalilties for diagnosis should be left for the experts.