Prostate Cancer
8 Articles & Excerpts
The Prostate's Strategic Location
 Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
Welcome to Grand Central Station-the prostate, the bustling, walnut-sized hub at the crossroads of a man's urinary and reproductive tracts. What makes such a small, relatively obscure gland so important to men? The answer is not immediately obvious
What the prostate does
Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
What is the prostate? The prostate is a small, and probably expendable, organ. Men can live quite comfortably without it. The prostate's biggest job, as far as we know, is to provide part of the fluid that makes up semen.
How the Urinary Tract Works
Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
The kidneys are the body's main filters. With each heartbeat, they cleanse the blood of toxic wastes, excess water and salts, and (among many other chores) help maintain the body's balance of fluids and minerals. With more than a million tiny, wadded-up
A Nutritional Disease
 The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan : The Foods, Supplements, and Drugs that Can Combat Prostate Cancer
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
Men in Japan and China have up to 90 percent less prostate cancer than American men. That's an astounding statistic. Ninety percent! Most men I talk to are at first surprised at the huge disparity. Their second reaction is to sort of shrug and say
Prostate Problems : Symptoms and Treatments
by National Institute on Aging
It's true that prostate problems are very common after age 50. And the older men get, the more likely they are to have such problems. Most prostate problems are not cancer. Still, prostate cancer does affect a lot of men.
Prostate Cancer: Treating the Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Armed with diagnostic data, patients and their doctors must then decide on a treatment course. It is at this point that patients must be well educated, says FDA's Fourcroy. 'The decisions made [on treatment] are so crucial and will have such an effect on
Prostate Cancer: Detecting
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
While the disease can strike any man, younger men at increased risk include African Americans, who have double the risk and death rate of white men and often are stricken before age 50. Men with a family link to prostate cancer through brothers or fathers
New Prostate Cancer Tests Create Treatment Dilemmas
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Prostrate Cancer will strike about 200,000 American men and kill about 38,000 this year alone, according to the American Cancer Society. FDA recently approved a test to improve early diagnosis.
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