For men who’ve had a prostate cancer diagnosis, they will experience the same feelings. Prostate cancer is a serious disease, however most men will survive it living for many more years to come.

There are specific suggestions for men to help them improve their sexual performance after prostate cancer to achieve a satisfying sex life once again. Here’s how:

A biopsy of the prostate is not to be taken lightly as it can result in pain, bleeding, and infection. The doctor can minimize these effects by using conscious sedation or an anesthetic called a prostatic block and by prescribing a course of antibiotics at the time of the biopsy.

As a general rule, what benefits cardiovascular health is also beneficial for prostate health. Studies have shown that for men who have succumbed to prostate cancer, one of the most common reasons why, is that they also had cardiovascular disease.

This news is from a recent prospective study of almost 28,000 Adventist men living in the Loma Linda area of California.

Men, who follow a nutritious dietary pattern fare much better in their treatment regimen – coping better with treatment side effects, quicker recovery and faster healing, and improvements in fighting off infections making men feel stronger, healthier and more energized.

Other likely areas prostate cancer may spread to are the bones or lymph nodes near the prostate and other organs such as the liver and intestines.

A man’s prostate gland lies just below the bladder and has the unique function of producing the fluid which protects and enriches sperm that makes up semen. 

A biopsy is any type of procedure that involves taking a piece of tissue from the body to be examined under a microscope. 

However, if prostate cancer is discovered in its early stages, it has a 98.9 percent survival rate as reported from the NCI.

A more recent 2017 study in the International Journal of Cancer, found men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer showed a positive association between long-term weight gain and risk of lethal prostate cancer.

 Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer of American men with one in 6 men who will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis at some point in their lives. 

For the year 2019, the American Cancer Society estimates that in the U.S., around 174,650 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed and about 31,620 men will die from the disease. T

Let’s take a look at the many functions the prostate gland performs helping keep the male reproductive system up and running:

The controversy involves whether it’s worth the risk to do routine screening which some urologists believe can lead to overdiagnosis and thus overtreatment of otherwise harmless cancers. 

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind lung and bronchus cancer and about 1 man in 39 will die because of it.

Doctors also have different ways and ideas of how they approach certain diseases in treating them. 

Understand too, that even though prostate cancer is a man’s disease, the women who love them are greatly affected by it also. 

A study has shed light on what may be putting certain men at risk for raising their risk of prostate cancer returning for a second time.

Active surveillance has increasingly emerged as a viable option for men who decide not to undergo immediate treatment (surgery or radiation therapy) for prostate cancer.

The research done in Sweden extensively reviewed the medical records of 52,000 men with brothers and fathers who had prostate cancer. 

Certain steps can be taken before, during and after the procedure to improve the outcome:

There are 4 types of foods that have been suggested showing a possible link to overconsumption of them to prostate cancer.   These foods are as follows:

Prostate cancer affects the prostate gland which is a walnut-shaped gland in men that produces the seminal fluid when a man ejaculates during intercourse.

While all fruits are good for us, the “jewel of the winter,” better known as pomegranates, are a true protector of your health. 

No man wants to hear his doctor say “You’re prostate cancer has spread.”  Metastatic prostate cancer simply means that the cancer has spread outside of the prostate into other areas of the body. 

Risk factors are any attribute, characteristic or exposure of a man that increase the likelihood of him developing prostate cancer. 

Men who are diagnosed with localized prostate cancer or where the cancer is completely contained within the prostate gland and has not spread, have the option of being treated with a procedure called laparoscopic prostatectomy.