Friday, April 4, 2008

How bad is prostate cancer

How bad is prostate cancer?
I just found out my dad has prostate cancer. =(
Cancer - 5 Answers
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1 :
It's not as bad as other cancers.. it depends how advanced it is and how old your dad is... but generally men tend to die WITH the disease, not FROM the disease (i.e. it usually doesn't kill)
2 :
Its just like any other cancer. It just depends on how advanced it is when it is discovered, a person's overall health when they are diagnosed, and what kind of treatment they want to have. The most common procedure to deal with prostate cancer is to remove the prostate itself. That is sometimes followed by chemo and radiation. Google it and you can find all sorts of info. Best wishes to your family.
3 :
Did he have symptoms. or was it found because he did a PSA test? If he had symptoms that is not as good as discovery by PSA test. Although surgery was the most common way to deal with PC, it may be because most urologists are trained surgeons. I had PC and got radioactive seed implants. Much less invasive and almost immediate recovery. Google Brachy therapy
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A macrobiotic type diet should help him. See Jean Carper's book "Miracle Cures". The info supplied here is NOT hocus pocus material, rather conclusions gleaned from actual studies. Such a diet can be combined with or without conventional treatment, if he prefers. Avoid "advice" from naysayers clandestinely or openly promoting pharmaceutical products. Macrobiotic diets are not products.
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It varies. Generally it's not a wildfire like other forms of cancer you hear about. It's very common in older men (most men in their 80's have it but die from something else). There are tools on the web that can help you get a rough idea of the situation called the Partin and Han tables, as well as Uropredict. See "How to Estimate Your Prostate Cancer Cure Odds" at http://www.ehow.com/how_5275952_estimate-prostate-cancer-cure-odds.html for a guide to these tools and more. Bottom line? If caught early, prostate cancer is nearly 100% curable. And even when it's found too late for a cure, there are systemic treatments that can potentially work for many years, so that the cancer becomes a chronic but manageable disease, and the man lives out a normal lifespan and dies of something else. You might also be interested in "How to Find the Best Prostate Cancer Treatment for YOU" at http://www.ehow.com/how_5308649_prostate-cancer-treatment.html Best wishes.

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