6:13 AM - Urologist Los Angeles- Havenâ??t gotten your prostate checked lately?
There's
no better time to get your prostate checked than during
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month!
Did
you know that September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month? As
prostate cancer continues to claim the lives of over 25,000
American males each year- making it the leading cancer-related
cause of death for American males- it is incredibly crucial to
get prostates checked regularly by a
Urologist
in Los Angeles
because
if the earlier prostate cancer is detected, the better the chance
that the patient will be cured. In fact, the president of the
Large Urology Group Practice Association has stated that if
caught early enough, prostate cancer is almost always curable,
with a 10-year survival rate at 99%.
According
to recent statistics, one in six American men will get prostate
cancer at some point in their lives. This rate is even higher
among African-American males and those with a familial history
of prostate cancer. And the older a man gets, the higher his
chances of developing prostate cancer.
Prostate
cancer usually presents no signs of symptoms until it is too
late, meaning that getting your prostate checked with a
screening is the only way to ensure that any prostate cancer
that forms is detected early, when it is very, very
treatable.
Prostate
cancer can be effectively treated a couple of different ways:
surgically and via radiation therapy.
Radiation
therapy is the other method that is used to cure prostate
cancer. During radiation therapy, ionizing radiation is used to
damage cells within the body. By damaging cells, apoptosis, or
cell death, is induced. However, for normal, non-cancer cells,
any damage caused by the radiation therapy should be able to be
repaired, and not induce apoptosis. Radiation therapy can be
used at all stages of prostate cancer.
Although
prostate cancer can be cured, the methods that are necessary to
effectively kill the cancer has the high potential to cause an
unfortunate side effect:
Erectile Dysfunction. This is because prostatectomy
involves surgery to areas very close to nerves related to
sexual function and radiation therapy inherently involves
causing intentional damage to cells around the prostate,
including cells related to sexual function.
Even
though erectile dysfunction is not favorable, there is good
news: with time and treatment, sexual health and function
should return. There are prescription medications, surgical
implants, medical injections, and external devices available to
help with the treatment of erectile dysfunction caused by
treatments for prostate cancer.
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