Tuesday, December 8, 2009

My grandpa has Prostate Cancer

My grandpa has Prostate Cancer?
i was just told that my grandpa has prostate cancer and is getting radiation therapy. i dont know anything about prostate cancer or how deadly it is. my grandpa is very healthy and in great shape. can someone please explain what all this means to me? thank you. so i guess my main question is, is he going to be ok?
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Prostate cancer is among the most curable cancers. Since he is gettnig radiation, and not chemo, its at an early stage. His chances of beating this cancer are close to 100%. The overall survival rate on prostate cancer is over 90%. Making it AMONG the most curable cancers. Check it out for yourself before you say my answer is wrong.
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... Well prostate cancer, is the worst according to men, maybe because, you know, they have to finger your butt all the time. And when some gay perverted doctor isn't paying with your rectum, you piss blood when you go to the bathroom. Prostate cancer is due to not having sex, and lack of masturbation. A lot of people are going to give me thumbs down because they'll think this answer is stupid and i'm making fun; expecting a hypocrite "oooh no ur grandpa iz gona b fine" answer, but i'm telling you how it is. Whatever happens though, i wish you, your grandfather and your whole family good luck and all the support I am able to give. Edit: Here's some higlights of the wikipedia prostate cancer page: Symptoms: "prostate cancer does cause symptoms (...) These include frequent urination, increased urination at night, difficulty starting and maintaining a steady stream of urine, blood in the urine, and painful urination (...) prostate cancer may also cause problems with sexual function and performance, such as difficulty achieving erection or painful ejaculation (...) Prostate cancer in the spine can also compress the spinal cord, causing leg weakness and urinary and fecal incontinence" Causes: "Unknown (...) The primary risk factors are age and family history. Prostate cancer is very uncommon in men younger than 45, but becomes more common with advancing age. The average age at the time of diagnosis is 70 (...) Genetic background may contribute to prostate cancer risk, as suggested by associations with race, family, and specific gene variants" Other: "Prostate cancer screening options include the digital rectal exam" --->more on this digital rectal exam: "The digital rectal examination is a relatively simple procedure. The patient undresses, then is placed in a position where the anus is accessible (lying on the side, squatting on the examination table, bent over the examination table, or lying down with feet in stirrups)." To the lady who answered, please go learn about your job, it'll save peoples lives.
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Prostate cancer is neither the most curable and nor is a single thing MightyGrinch said was correct. I have yet to meet a gay urologist and blood in urine has zip to do with the prostate. The older a man is the more likely he will live his normal life span and die of something else with prostate cancer. To give a more detailed answer we need to know his Gleason score, how many cores were positive, his age and PSA.

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Friday, December 4, 2009

my dad has prostate cancer they want to do cryotherapy

my dad has prostate cancer they want to do cryotherapy?
they said no sergery because he had colan cancer they said he could have radiation or cryotherapy thats were they freeze the prostate has anybody heard of this and how well did it work his colan cancer is gone and his gleason score was 6 with a few 7's he is over 70
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3539.htm http://www.prostate-cancer-institute.com/prostate-cancer-treatment/cryosurgery.html http://www.prostate-cancer.com/cryotherapy/treatment-description/prostate-cryotherapy-description.html
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The goal of cryotherapy is to eradicate prostate cancer by freezing the prostate gland. The doctor inserts needles into the prostate gland through the perineum, the area between the scrotum and anus. The needles produce very cold temperatures. Freezing destroys the entire prostate, including any cancerous tissue within it. Although the technique hasn't been around as long as surgery (it began in the 1990s), its success rate is approximately the same as surgery and radiation.
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Yea it is a newer process but it works well...
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Well prostate cancer hits 8 out of 10 men in a life time. Prostate cancer is usually a slow growing cancer unless the Gleason score is high. This score measures how fast the prostate cancer will grow. You did not state if your dad colon cancer is in remission or still active. I do not understand why they will not do surgery on your dad unless he is older than 65 and the Gleason score is low. Radiation therapy daily for 6-8 weeks usually kills or really slows down the cancer but then again it all depends on how advanced the colon cancer is. Radiation sometimes affects the colon area. Cryotherapy can work and studies do show it will slow down the prostate cancer. Have your father ask for a second opinion. And if you can follow up with some more information about your dad. This way you can get more information on his cancer. Also you can go to prostate cancer in the Internet and look up all the different treatments for prostate cancer. Good luck to you. My dad had his prostate removed and is cancer free 2 years later and counting. So I know what you are going threw right now...

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Food to cure prostate cancer

food to cure prostate cancer?
i have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer - it is in its early stages. I have been researching the different options from do nothing to surgery. Does any one know of a certain diet or food that will cure this naturally?
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Dude, do not screw with herbal remedies for prostrate cancer. It is very curable if treated quickly. I have seen too many patients come in ate up with cancer who could have beaten it early if they would have sought treatment. See a doctor....
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It isnâ€™t possible to cure any kind of cancer by yourself. If it were that simple no one would have cancer as we would know how to cure it. Make your decisions based on the information given to you by your doctor and seek other opinions. You have ample time as prostate cancer is usually slow growing.
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Jane Plant diet she has wrote a book, if you join this message board members will tell you all you need to know http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/forums/default.asp http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prostate-Cancer-Understand-Overcome-Prostrate/dp/075351298X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227204950&sr=8-5
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There are no foods or diets that will cure any cancer, I'm sorry. I know how you feel, when I was diagnosed with cancer I was desperate to find an alternative to conventional treatment; there is none. Anyone who tells you you can cure cancer through diet is deluded, or lying, or after your money. Jane Plant has been mentioned; she is a professor of geology, not medicine, and she claims to have cured her breast cancer by excluding dairy products. I remember when I first read her book - I felt smug because I'm a vegan - no animal products at all, so no dairy - and here was another disease my wonderful diet was protecting me from. I was somewhat less smug when I reread it 6 months later, having just been diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. Moreover Prof. Plant does NOT recommend refusing conventional treatment. And in fact she was undergoing a course of chemotherapy when she had her Eureka! moment and stopped eating dairy. She then put her tumour shrinking down to a week without dairy rather than the chemotherapy. I know which I put it down to. If dairy was responsible for breast and prostate cancer, as Plant claims, I'd still have two breasts.

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