Prostate Cancer discussion

They say almost every male will get it someday if he lives long enough.
Please share your thoughts and experiences. Have you known anyone with this? What was the treatment and outcome?

My grandpa, my uncles and my dad all had this. My grandpa lived to be 104. My dad had radiation therapy and the treatment killed him, not the prostate cancer.
Good thing the treatment for prostate cancer is getting much better. Some people dont get treatment at all. Some get laser surgery, radiation or knife. I think I heard the surgery can make you impotent.
Its scary, but something we cant ignore.

I've always heard and read that BPH is something all men get not necessarily Prostate Cancer, and having BPH doesn't mean you'll get cancer. They're two different things.

As for treatment, yeah, it's gotten much better and the survival rates are only going up. I know a few people who had it and they're fine.

That could be true about BPH, I need to look up the stats on prostate cancer in men. Theres def an increase in it as men get older, like a lot of diseases.

What are the key statistics about prostate cancer?
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for prostate cancer in the United States for 2013 are:

About 238,590 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed
About 29,720 men will die of prostate cancer
About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.

Prostate cancer occurs mainly in older men. Nearly two thirds are diagnosed in men aged 65 or older, and it is rare before age 40. The average age at the time of diagnosis is about 67.

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. About 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer can be a serious disease, but most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die from it. In fact, more than 2.5 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.

For statistics related to survival, see the section, "Survival rates for prostate cancer."

1/6 men will have prostate cancer. Not as high a percentage as I had thought. I need to be eating a lot of watermelon and lycopene lol
1/5 people will have skin cancer

Definitely true. Prostate Cancer risk increases as we age, as do a lot of diseases... like you said. Kinda makes getting a sucky thing. Fortunately no one in my family has had prostate cancer. BPH? Sure but not cancer. Not sure if there's a genetic familial link in there somewhere but I'd hazard to guess there may be.

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Originally Posted by Dzone

1/6 men will have prostate cancer. Not as high a percentage as I had thought. I need to be eating a lot of watermelon and lycopene lol
1/5 people will have skin cancer

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We just need to produce a Lycopene filled watermelon and sell it!

I worked in a Cancer Center for 7 years. I worked in both Hematology/Oncology and Radiation Oncology. Patients that came in with prostate cancer, usually came in for radiation. The ones who had prostate cancer with mets, were getting chemo and radiation. From my experience of being there, men had a good rate of survival when diagnosed with prostate cancer in the early stages. I am no doctor but to say every man will eventually get it...I say that is not true. Many of the men who came in to where I worked were sent to a pristae center where they did a specific treatment called:

Seed Brachytherapy

Treatment of prostate cancer using seed brachytherapy was pioneered in the 1960s as an effective alternative to surgery. The word brachytherapy is derived from the Greek prefix brachy, meaning "short" or "close", because the seeds containing radioactive material are implanted directly into the cancerous prostate gland.
Also referred to as seed implants or seeds, brachytherapy is a one-time, minimally invasive procedure usually performed in an outpatient setting under general anesthesia. The procedure itself involves the placement of tiny radioactive seeds inside the prostate using ultrasound equipment.
The seed implants immediately emit radiation and kill the malignant cells inside the prostate. The time it takes for the radiation to deliver its total dose depends on the seed (isotope) used. There are currently 3 isotopes commonly used in prostate brachytherapy: Cesium¹³¹, Iodine¹²⁵, and Palladium¹⁰³. Brachytherapy seeds themselves are compatible with human tissue. After the procedure, patients are taken to recovery and are typically discharged a few hours later. Most patients resume normal activities within 24-48 hours. The most common side effect of brachytherapy is temporary urinary irritation including frequency and urgency. These symptoms will last from a few weeks to a few months.

This seemed to have a good outcome in many patients. There were also many other types of treatment for it. This is the place we were affiliated with:

Prostate Cancer Treatment Options | Prostate Cancer Second Opinion | Surgery Alternative | Prostate Cancer Side Effects

Very important to keep up with getting a PSA test!

Yes, getting tested often is good. I had the PSA recently and was neg. I just have to do all I can to prevent it, or push it off until Im about 99. lol

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Yes, getting tested often is good. I had the PSA recently and was neg. I just have to do all I can to prevent it, or push it off until Im about 99. lol

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Good read on BPH!

https://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/f...ph-113794.html