The prostate is a walnut sized gland at the base of the bladder that encircles the uretha, the tube through which urine is voided. The prostate produces prostatic fluid, which makes up the bulk of the male ejaculate and nourishes and transports the sperm. It is the most commonly diagnosed male cancer and the second [...]
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Prostate Cancer Treatments
Posted by admin on September 20th, 2009
It has been said that “most men die with prostate cancer, not of it”. Autopsy studies have shown that a high proportion of men who have died in other ways, have prostate cancer when the prostate is examined under a microscope. Thus screening may tend to detect cancers that would not have killed the patient [...]
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