Prostate Cancer

The most common cancer around the world is prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Research Institute in memoriam Sloan-Kettering's approach for treatment in prostate cancer is based on a dynamic model of prostate cancer, in which doctors explain therapeutic goals for each patient at the time of diagnosis and then redefine these goals as the disease unfolds. More patients with cancer are treating in an incipient phase and new treatments are making it possible for men to live long and healthy lives following their diagnosis. Following few simple steps, men diagnosed with prostate cancer can take charge of their lives and pass over the fear and anxiety that accompany a cancer diagnosis.

The prostate gland usually starts to enlarge after 40 years. Enlarged Prostate or BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) appears when the prostate gland grow slowly, pressing the urethra, and the gland secret a fluid discharged at one time with the sperm. It is not cancer or it will not raise the risk to render sick of prostate cancer. Like prostate cancer, it happens to almost all men over 40 years. Because of the symptoms, men usually stay more time at home.

Some tests which are being used to detect the Enlarged Prostate in the Institute are Digital Rectal Exam, Prostate Specific Antigen Blood Test, Rectal Ultrasound, Urine Flow Study, Intravenous Pyelogram, Cystoscopy. Digital Rectal Exam or DRE is usually the most frequent test and it’s not so comfortable, Prostate Specific Antigen Blood Test or PSA is done with the help of a protein produced by prostate’s cells, Rectal Ultrasound is done by the insertion in rectum of direct sound waves, Urine Flow Study is done with a special device measuring the flow of the urine, Intravenous Pyelogram or IVP it’s the x-ray of the urinary tract, and Cytoscopy is the exam with a small tube putted in the pennies at the urethra’s opening. Nowadays, the treatment it’s accessible for everyone, both medical and surgical one, but the self care treatment is the most important of all and the least expensive one, but the one of us who will not renounce at some bad habits exists treatments.

Some of treatments made in Institute are behavioral therapies, medications, minimally invasive therapies and transurethral resection of the prostate. Behavioral therapies can help men to avoid surgery, and implies diets. The conservative options are tried before surgery in most cases, several medications helping the bladder to relax and making the prostate to start shrinking and rescue the men from the surgery; these are alpha-blockers which are helping the muscles to relax and finasteride or dutasteride which shrinks the prostate gland. Every medication has its effects but combined theses drugs are more beneficial. These are only some of the treatment.

Other treatments are invasive therapies, therapies with similar side effects, but it's not been removed the tissue. Men with no severe symptoms by severe BPH symptoms are often willing to accept this to avoid hospitalization and the chance of more serious complications. Appeared in today’s therapies microwave thermal therapy, known as transurethral microwave thermotherapy or TUMT, which is an outpatient procedure that takes only one hour. A tiny antenna is inserted into the urethra with the aid of a urinary catheter, the antenna delivering microwaves, their heat destroying the ill tissues. Beside those techniques exists needle ablation.

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