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.

Prostate Cancer Treatment: Active Surveillance

Prostate cancer is the most feared cancer for men, some of them grows very slowly compared to others. Active surveillance is one of management of prostate cancer that has objection to watching carefully those patient who decides not to undergo immediate surgery or radiation therapy. Although some might say that active surveillance is just postponing treatment, the truth is that for men who have very slow growing or very early cancers, immediate treatment might not make sense. Instead, they might choose to undergo vigilant monitoring, with frequent PSA and DRE tests. Additionally the use of ultrasound, CT, bone scans, or MRI might be used to watch for disease growth and the need for treatment. Active surveillance might also be a good choice for men who have other serious medical conditions that affect the way they live their lives, especially if these other conditions are likely to shorten their lifespan.

Prostate Cancer Treatment

Cancer Prostate Treatment Management:

• Active Surveillance
• Surgery
  Often uses Radical prostatectomy
• Radiation Therapy
• External beam radiation (IMRT)
• Brachytherapy
• High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
• Chemotherapy
• Oral chemotherapeutic drugs
  Often uses Temozolomide/TMZ

Prostate Cancer diagnosis

Three Cancer Prostate Diagnosis that often used:

• Biopsy
  If cancer prostate is detected, a biopsy is suggested. During a biopsy a urologist or radiologist obtains tissue samples from the prostate via the rectum. Biopsy done done by inserted a  biopsy gun inserts from rectum and removes special hollow-core needles (usually three to six on each side of the prostate) in less than a second. This cancer prostate diagnosis is guided by ultrasound image.
  

Prostate Cancer Screening

Most of cancer prostate cases are find during medical checkup or routine screening. Prostate cancer screening is an attempt to find unsuspected cancers, if the result of a screening test shows no prostate cancer signs, the disease is presumed not to be present. If the prostate cancer screening test shows a sign, the disease is then suspected to be present, and it may lead to more specific follow-up tests such as a biopsy, with cell samples taken for closer study.

Prostate Cancer Causes and Risk Factor

Up until now, doctors still can tell what the exact cause of cancer prostate is. However, a man's risk of developing prostate cancer is related to:

• Age
  Older people in higher risk than the younger one.
  
• Genetic/Race
  Genetic background may contribute to prostate cancer risk, as suggested by associations with race, family, and specific gene variants. In the United States, prostate cancer more commonly affects black men than white or Hispanic men, and is also more deadly in black men.
  
  

Prostate Cancer Symptoms and Signs

Cancer prostate has a slow growth, this is the reason why cancer prostate make no symptoms when it is in early stage and for a long time. Usually they who have prostate cancer know its signs during the workup for an elevated PSA when doing a routine check up. However, prostate cancer does sometimes cause symptoms, often similar to those of diseases such as benign prostatic hyperplasia. These include:

Prostate Cancer

The most fearsome cancer for men is prostate cancer. Its detection vary widely across the world, with South and East Asia detecting less frequently than in Europe, and especially the United States. Prostate cancer tends to develop in men over the age of fifty and although it is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in men, many never have symptoms, undergo no therapy, and eventually die of other causes. This is because cancer of the prostate is, in most cases, slow-growing, symptom-free, and since men with the condition are older they often die of causes unrelated to the prostate cancer, such as heart/circulatory disease, pneumonia, other unconnected cancers, or old age.