Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is September. Three million men in the United States are living with Prostate Cancer. For men whose cancer is confined to their prostate, the five year survival rate is almost 100 percent. For men with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, the five-year survival rate is 29 percent.
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Septe...
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is September. Three million men in the United States are living with Prostate Cancer. For men whose cancer is confined to their prostate, the five year survival rate is almost 100 percent. For men with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, the five-year survival rate is 29 percent.
Prost [...]
Prostate Biopsy, MRI, PSA, and Prosta...
In the 1980s a technique was developed in which tissues samples were taken systematically from the prostate in hopes of locating a tumor within the prostate gland. Typically men whose physicians discover elevations in PSA levels, a common blood test to screen for prostate cancer, trigger over 1 million prostate biopsies annually. Most biopsi [...]