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How Do You Know If You Have Prostate Cancer?


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Every year prostate cancer affects about thousands of middle aged or older men. Maximum cases occur in the men's, who are at the age of 65 or above.


Prostate cancer often does not present with any symptoms. Some men however may have trouble with urination, change in their urinary pattern, like frequency urgency, waking up at night to go to the bathroom, difficulty controlling their streams.


Some men report seeing blood and and sperm or urine but again many times prostate cancer has no symptoms of its own.


Also, above described symptoms may be caused by illness that are not cancerous, such as enlarged prostate inflammation or infection.


What is Prostate Cancer:


Prostate cancer occurs by an uncontrolled growth of the cells in the prostate gland.

This walnut-sized gland situated just below the bladder and in front of the rectum.


As most men with initial prostate cancer don't have any kind of signs or symptoms. And if you have initial signs or symptoms they can be caused due to other things. In order to know whether you have prostate cancer or not, you can visit your healthcare provider while considering a few terms that can be responsible in order to increase the risk of prostate cancer which are mentioned as follows:


If you're over 50: Age is the factor that may involve in causing prostate cancer, which mainly affects males over the age of 50, apart from this your risk may increase as you get older. The most common age for males to be diagnosed with this cancer is about between 65 and 70 years.

Men with the below 50 of age are less likely to get prostate cancer but still possibilities are there.


Family history of Prostate Cancer: Male with one close relative with prostate cancer such as a brother or a father is twice as likely to develop prostate cancer in comparison with male with no family history of prostate cancer. If a couple of very close male relatives are affected with this disease, a man's lifetime risk of having this cancer is increased five-fold.


If you're a black man: According to the research projects, black men are at a higher risk of having prostate cancer than white counterparts.

If you're wondering why black men are more likely to be diagnosed with this cancer then this is because black men are more likely to carry such genes that are responsible in order to drive hazardous as well as deadlier forms of the disease.


Treatment for Prostate Cancer:


There are various best treatment options for prostate cancer, directly-depend on the stage of cancer. People with aggressive prostate cancer require surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and other treatment.

People with slow growing cancer, often monitoring is recommended.


Apart from this, some FDA approved medicines can be the best option in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.


Here in this section,some medications are given include Abiraterone acetate 250 mg, Cabazitaxel, Docetaxel, Bicalutamide, Apalutamide, Darolutamide, Degarelix and Casodex (Bicalutamide).

From above mentioned all the medications, Abiraterone acetate tablets such as xbira 250mg was approved in 2011 and was declared as the safest and most effective medicine needed in a health system by the World Health Organization.


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