PSA Blood Test

Prostate-specific antigen (or just PSA) is proteins that produce in the prostate gland. In normal men, PSA is present in small quantities, if the PSA is elevated it may shows the presence of prostate cancer or other prostate disorders. A blood test to measure PSA is considered the most effective test currently available for the early detection of prostate cancer, but this effectiveness has also been questioned.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an enlargement of prostate gland, and it is a common thing that often occurs in men when they grow older. As a man getting older, the prostate goes through two main periods of growth. The first occurs early in puberty, when the prostate doubles in size. At around age 25, the gland begins to grow again. This second growth phase often results, years later, in Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

However, the prostate is growing during most of a man's life, the enlargement doesn't usually cause problems until late in life. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) rarely causes symptoms before age 40, but more than half of men in their sixties and as many as 90 percent in their seventies and eighties have some symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Prostatitis - Prostate Cancer

The prostate is a reproductive gland located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum. It wraps around the urethra, a tube that carries urine from the bladder. The prostate produces most of a male’s semen.

Prostatitis is a term that use for prostate gland inflammation, and it is often resulting in swelling or pain. If you have prostatitis, you may have a burning feeling when you urinate, or you may have to urinate more often. Or you may have a fever or just feel tired. Prostatitis term is general, so it is not describe specific inflammation. There are four different forms of prostatitis, each with different characteristic.

Prostate Problems

Prostate cancer is not the only prostate problem that attack men. There are also other disease that can occur in prostate:

• Prostatitis
  Prostatitis is a term that use for prostate gland inflammation. If you have prostatitis, you may have a burning feeling when you urinate, or you may have to urinate more often. Or you may have a fever or just feel tired. Prostatitis term is general, so it is not describe specific inflammation. There are four different forms of prostatitis, each with different characteristic.
  

Prostate Cancer Initial Treatment Options

These prostate cancer treatment options is based on the stage of prostate cancer

Low risk prostate cancer treatment management (Stage 1 and 2A):

1. Active Surveillance
2. Prostatectomy
3. External beam radiotherapy alone
4. Brachytherapy
5. Expectant Management

Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy

Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) is one of prostate cancer treatment management. It is not really a new method, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is a modern form of the oldest treatment for prostate cancer. Unlike open surgical form, this method does not make a large incision. Instead, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is minimally invasive and relies on modern technologies, such as fiber optics and miniaturization.

Prostate Surgery-Radical Prostatectomy

Radical prostatectomy is very effective treating cancer prostate that have not spread beyond the prostate. However, the cure rates very depend on PSA level and Gleason grade. It works by isolate the tumor and cut it. Unlike any other cancer, prostate cancer actually a number of small tumors scattered throughout the prostate. So cutting the tumor out of the prostate is not really an option. Instead, the entire prostate plus some surrounding tissue is removed, including the nearby seminal vesicles.