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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
There are some worries that only affect one sex or the other and some that are more prevalent in one sex than the other. In this article, we will look at some of the concerns that have an effect on just men or men normally more than women.
The first difficulty that affects males more is the dropping of the voice. The voice transformation in boys is caused by changes to the voice box or larynx which is caused by an elevated production of androgens or male hormones.
Before this transformation boys’ and girls’ larynxes are about the same, but after the transformation a boy’s voice could have fallen a full octave. The change in a girl’s voice is much less obvious.
The change seldom takes place quickly, but in the early phase there can be radical swings in pitch which sometimes sounds squeaky. The change is normally finished by age 15. It is an embarrassing time for most boys because it presents many opportunities for friends and foes to take the mickey.
Hair loss is the next problem that often affects young men, but that hardly ever happens to young women. Many men are ‘very thin on top’ before they are 30 years old, whereas thinning hair usually happens to middle aged and older women.
Male pattern baldness usually starts with the hairline moving back from the forehead. Normally, it begins in front of the temples, leaving a peak in the middle. Thinning continues behind this peak eventually resulting in a balding crown.
Some men are extremely conscious of their receding hairline and it is worse the younger the man is. Luckily, there is less stigma about being bald nowadays than there was and numerous young men opt to have a clean-shaven head rather than have hair.
This fashion statement has gone a long way to helping both young and older men cope with the inevitable loss of hair as one gets older.
Beer belly and ‘man breasts’ are not always caused by drinking too much beer. However, by middle age many men have a paunch. This can come from excess eating or drinking too much beer, but the real reason is shortage of exercise.
By the time, many men become 40, they have stopped exercising, they might also have a desk bound career, meaning less natural physical exercise. Muscles are also starting to relax.
The blend of over consumption, shortage of exercise and naturally relaxing muscles creates the beer belly. Numerous men find it embarrassing to have a beer belly and resolve to work it off tens of times before they get round to it.
Man breasts can come from wearing tight-fitting clothing or being exposed to too much hormones in food. Women are getting larger breasts too, but they do not mind. However, it is embarrassing for men, particularly if swimming and it is almost impossible to exercise them off.
Prostate cancer is an entirely male disease and is life-threatening although it is one of the most simple cancers to cure, if it is diagnosed early. In fact, claims of a 90% success rate are not uncommon.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is now concerned with hormonal treatment for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The medical name for a mini stroke is quite a mouthful – a Transient Ischemic Attack. This occurs when a blood vessel supplying an area of the brain becomes blocked with a particle, often a platelet of cholesterol.
Depending on where that platelet becomes lodged, and so depending on which area of the brain is starved of nutrients and oxygen, the harm may be very significant or just go unnoticed. Unnoticed by the patient’s conscious mind, but maybe injury is still being done,
At the very least, mini strokes or TIA’s are a warning that your blood contains harmful substances, normally fat or cholesterol. A TIA is a ‘call to action’; a warning that you had better work on your diet, do more exercise and go see your medical doctor straight away.
Medication will disperse the plaque or platelets that are already there in your blood and a healthy diet and more exercise will inhibit more from forming. Blood clots are another cause of (mini) strokes.
Blood clots usually form in other regions of the body, but flow fairly freely through the large arteries until they get to the narrow blood vessels in the brain, which they cannot pass through. They become lodged in the opening causing a blockage.
Long-haul flights are often blamed for deep vein thrombosis or the creation of blood clots, frequently in the legs. These clots then find their way to the brain where they may kill or cause great, often permanent, harm. Or they could result in a mini stroke that goes unnoticed. It is all down to luck where is becomes lodged.
it is thought that any form of stroke causes harm even if that harm is not readily perceived, since different parts of the brain control different parts or organs of the body. If a blockage occurs in the part that controls the liver, it might stop working to some level and you might not notice for quite a time.
It is a very good idea to be able to recognize the symptoms of a mini stroke. However, this is simpler said than done. Many mini strokes happen at night, whilst you are asleep.
They do also occur during the day obviously and the indications might be tingling in one part of the body. Or you may get the opposite effect, a numbness. Many sufferers say that they experienced blurred eyesight. These indications might only last a few minutes.
Frequently these symptoms are blamed on other causes such as tiredness, too much TV, too much computer, sitting in one position too long or merely not having had enough exercise that day. And these could well be reasons for the sensation, which makes it very difficult to know.
There are more obvious signs as well such as dizziness or confusion; not being understand what people are saying to you; not being able to speak or speaking in a slurred voice.
Any of these symptoms should be reported to a doctor instantly so that corrective action can be taken to prevent a worse stroke occurring in the next couple of days.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with natural cures for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
External beam radiation therapy or radiotherapy is not new-fangled. Electron beam radiotherapy was initially tried in 1915. This beam, the one used in X-Rays was not effective because it caused almost as much damage as it did good.
Proton beam radiotherapy was first proposed in 1946 and was carried out from 1954. This was much more successful because it is possible to retain more control over the point of influence of the beam. This creates less collateral injury to the surrounding healthy tissue.
Apart from these technologies there are also other external beams like the neutron beam and the 3D-CRT beam. There are also other more investigational beams and what is known as seed radiation too.
Except for seed radiation, there is no invasive surgery needed with external beam radiation therapy, there is very little collateral harm and practically no side effect, so you would imagine that this is the best prostate cancer treatment to go for.
However, this is not always the case, because there are so many other factors that need to be taken into account. These factors, such as the phase of the cancer, the general health of the patient and the patient’s point of view make the decision a complex one.
Consequently, if you have questions that have been raised from reading this short article, please take them up with your physician or healthcare provider.
Prostate cancer is like an oil tanker, it can move quickly, but it takes a long time to attain this speed. If you have caught the cancer early, say, in stage one, your medical doctor may make a decision to ‘wait and see’.
This can be upsetting for the patient, but it is a genuine strategy, because not all growths are cancerous and the prostate grows with age anyway. It is better for the doctor to carry out a number of tests and ‘watchful waiting’ to have conclusive proof what the growth is.
The first test will be a rectal examination with a finger (DRE), the physician may then check your PSA count. PSA stands for ‘prostate specific antigen’, This antigen is produced by the prostate and some of it passes into the blood.
A small amount is standard, higher amounts may indicate a problem and its severity. Age is a factor, but if the level reaches 10, then more tests have to be carried out and they may need a biopsy of the prostate to carry them out.
When the medical doctor is certain that you have cancer, then radiation therapy is merely one of the options you have and although you might prefer the sound of it, it may not be the most appropriate treatment in your case.
Radiation therapy is very local in its effect, so if your cancer has not spread, radiation therapy may be used to kill off solitary flecks of growth. However, if it has gone further than that, it is likely that a different treatment will be chosen
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is currently concerned with the proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to kcurrently more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Many people think that we are taking too many pharmaceutical goods and it certainly is the case that we are taking more than we ever have done before in history. Our generation has forgotten many of the natural treatments that our grandparents (or even further back) took for granted
On the other hand, lots of the pharmaceutical remedies on the market are manufactured from natural items such as plants, but are more highly concentrated. A pharmacist also has access to plants from other continents and can mix plant extracts to improve the efficacy of the final product.
Notwithstanding all that, many people still feel that we have gone too far and should attempt to redress the balance at least a little. I live in Thailand now and a day does not pass when my wife says something like: ‘Old people eat this for medicine. Old style remedy for bad blood’ – or good heart or beautiful skin.
I have no medical training so I am not authorized to say whether these old style treatments are any good or not, but I have collected a few them in this article out of interest and if you find them interesting too, you can do some more research yourself.
You can buy most of these ingredients and ask for more information from health food shops and if you like the effects, you could try to cultivate them in your backyard.
Zinc or at least products containing zinc are thought to cure colds. Zinc is easily obtained from good chocolate, watermelon seeds and sesame seeds, so next time you feel like a snack, try these instead.
Cranberries are famous for helping sort out urinary tract infections (UTI’s). Women suffer more from UTI’s than men, so it would be worth keeping a bag or dried cranberries in the cabinet or a litre of unsweetened cranberry juice in the fridge.
Aloe Vera is commonly known to cure skin issues and dried aloe vera is said to make a tea that lowers blood pressure. If the climate is right, everybody should have a plant or two in the backyard.
Garlic is known to help purify the blood and cut down on the risk of heart problems. I know many people who consume two or three raw small, hazelnut-sized bulbs of garlic a day.
St. John’s Wort is thought to cure depression, although you would have to research how the plant is prepared.
Citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit are useful for curing the common cold, something that the pharmaceutical industry admits by having almost all of its cold cures taste of lemon.
White vinegar will alleviate feet soaked in it of foot rot, toe fungus, athletes’ foot and such like.
Cinnamon is an old, traditional remedy for high blood pressure and is easy to take on cakes and puddings. Cinnamon tea is delicious as well.
Grape seeds are said to be a remedy for prostate issues, although not prostate cancer.
Ginger tea is an old aid to digestion and banishes flatulence.
The list goes on and it only;y takes a little homework to find more time-honoured treatments.
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with natural cures for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Knowledge is power, isn’t it? information empowers you to be able to do something. Having information on prostate cancer at your finger tips will enable you to have more chance of diagnosing yourself or helping your family and friends. One of the concerns with prostate cancer is that it grows slowly but by the time you notice it, it can be far advanced.
The information that you will find in this article is stuff that I have discovered for my own information and benefit. It is not definitive medical advice. For that depth of knowledge you will have to talk to a physician.
I am not a physician, but my father and a good friend passed away of prostate cancer and as a man, I have a fairly high risk – one in six – of contracting the problem myself, hence my interest.
It seems that there are things that a man can do to lower the likelihood of acquiring prostate cancer and these include eating healthily and doing manly things like sport and manual labour. One of the worst things you can do is sit on your prostate gland all day long – desk jobs and watching TV is not good for the prostate.
If you are not able to help but have a sedentary lifestyle, then you have to become aware of the early signs of prostate cancer so that it can be treated before it becomes life-threatening. The main thing to be on the look out for is issues urinating.
Most older men have problems with their bladder, but once it starts happening to you, go to your GP and have it checked out. It may be nothing except age, but on the other hand …
The bigger the problems, such as pain or bleeding, the more reason that you ought to go to the GP. Frequent urination may be the first sign of prostate cancer but it could just mean that you are getting older too.
I was once told by my Thai optician that the reason why I was losing my sight was because I was ‘prematurely senile’. it can happen, but I asked him to check the wording and he returned with ‘premature senile cataracts’. We had a good laugh about that.
Prostate cancer is curable. About 90% of people are cured (some surveys say 85% others say 95%), however, it very much relies on catching the disease in its infancy. All men more than around 40 should have a check up at least once annually, perhaps twice. The test is disagreeable but quick, painless and simple – a finger up the bum.
Dying of prostate cancer is the result of negligence these days, because it grows slowly in its preliminary stages, but once it gets a hold, it goes like a train and moves to other areas of the body, giving the patient much less opportunity of recovery. If the worst comes to the worst you can do without your prostate gland anyway – after all, women don’t have one.
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with prostate cancer and radiation treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
This question bothers millions of individuals worldwide each year. Although prostate cancer can only affect men, any significant, life-threatening infection has an effect on not merely the sufferer, but also his family and friends. Doctors and surgeons also wonder what the best prostate cancer treatment is each week.
In this piece, we will try to give you some food for thought on the issue so that you may do more research on the Internet later or have some questions prepared to pose to your gp.
It is better to be able to understand the terminology and have some fundamental concept of what the disease is than to remain completely unaware.
Having said that, you should not use this article of around five hundred words to base your medical judgments on. This piece is only meant as a motivation for further investigation.
The first thing to consider is the general health of the sufferer and the phase of development of the cancer. These two issues will establish which treatment is most suitable. The important thing with prostate cancer is to catch it very early on because it spreads so rapidly when likened with most other cancers and spreads early.
If you have been having frequent check-ups and the cancer has been diagnosed early, your GP may decide that he wants to ‘wait and see’. This can be upsetting for the patient as the patient expects cancer to be taken on immediately.
However, if the cancer is in an early stage, it may be better to monitor its speed of development before deciding what to do about it After all, you do not want to go through unnecessary remedies, only to have to be treated again afterwards.
if you are concerned about waiting or the treatment suggested (or combination of remedies), go for a second opinion. You will not offend your physician by doing this, in fact, it relieves him of some responsibility, so he will probably be glad of it.
If the cancer is still small, hormonal treatment may be recommended. Male hormones are partially responsible for the rate of growth of prostate cancer, so if you reduce or cut off these hormones (testosterone in particular), the speed of growth of the cancer should slow down.
It might be possible to do this with medication or surgery may be necessary. This will mean castration either chemical or surgical. Both sound radical, but it might mean less side effects.
Again, if the cancer is small, they might make a decision to endeavour to kill it with external radiotherapy beams. These beams resemble X-Rays, but far less perilous to healthy tissue. That is, they can be tightly targeted on the cancerous cells, causing very little collateral harm.
If the cancer is spreading fast, the team may suggest cutting it out. This may involve a full or partial prostatectomy. This is why waiting and watching it may be a wise tactic in the beginning. You do not want radical surgery if it is not really necessary.
There are quite a number of options for the treatment of prostate cancer and over 80% of sufferers are cured, but it depends on those regular tests to a large extent.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of subjects, but is currently involved with the proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to kcurrently more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Make no mistake about it, prostate cancer is a life-threatening illness. Not just that, but it will kill all men that it touches unless they do something to stop it. The number of deaths per annum is falling, but it still stands at a little under 30,000 men a year in the USA alone.
Successful therapy relies a lot on the early diagnosis of the disease and when caught early, the success rate of survival is as high as almost 90%. Prostate cancer can afflict men of all ages, but the older the man, the more chance he has of acquiring it. The age when the risk starts to rise is 50 years of age.
The occurrence of prostate cancer before 50 years of age is quite to very rare and is considered to be linked to DNA or hereditary factors. Therefore, if there is a history of prostate problems among the men in your family, start planning frequent check-ups when you are 40 or even 35, just to make certain.
Many people believe that there is a strong link between cancer and smoking, because they contend that smoking can deform the DNA allowing cancers to grow more freely. If you accept this, then it makes sense to stop smoking or never start.
Diet is a means to maintaining a healthy body and an effective immune system. The standard advice is to eat a balanced, low-fat diet which is rich in fresh fruit and vegetables, low in fat and high in fibre. To this you can add high in lycopene and quercetin, both of which occur naturally in fruit and vegetables.
Lycopene is the red dye seen in many fruits such as tomatoes, dragon fruit, red cabbage, carrots, water melons, peanuts and many others and quercetin is discovered in numerous leaves that are used to make tea, both green and black teas. Some have higher quantities than others.
Drinking water and exercising is an easy means of massaging the internal organs and flushing out the excess toxins that your body creates merely by being alive. Exercise is also said to boost the immune system and will help you tackle not merely prostate cancer but other illnesses as well.
Frequent testing for (prostate) cancer remains the best procedure for the prevention of a life-threatening situation. A PSA test will reveal the amount of antigens that the prostate is releasing into the blood.
This is one of the first symptoms that there may be a difficulty on the horizon. Regular testing will supply a benchmark to see whether the amount is rising, which it might do due to no other reason than your increasing age.
As with all cancers, it is crucial to diagnose prostate cancer early. Once your medical doctor is certain that there is a malignant growth there are quite a few methods of tackling it. Which course of action is chosen relies on you and the condition your body is in.
You can prepare for the eventuality by keeping your body in passable shape; doing some research and being conscious of the options, which you will need to discuss with your medical doctor.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is currently involved with proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to kcurrently more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Numerous, if not most, men over the age of fifty or so worry concerning the likelihood of their prostrate causing them concerns in the near future. The fact is that many men will have concerns with their prostate and the proportion is quite high.
For most men, this will mean little more than recurrent visits to the bathroom, where urination will be sparse. Nocturnal visits to the toilet are also common. Some men might find themselves in the upsetting situation of ‘dripping’, which involves a wet patch on the trousers.
These are fairly dismal prospects, but there is much worse that can occur. It all has to do with the prostate which encircles the tube from the bladder to the penis. It swells from the inside not the outside and so it ‘bites’ on the urethra cutting off the flow of urine.
This produces the feeling of having a full bladder but not being able to evacuate it fully. This in turn can lead to urinary tract infections (UTI’s) and produce issues for the kidneys which may become life-threatening.
Some people think that a diet containing certain foodstuffs in quantity can defer or even prevent serious concerns with the prostate gland. Here are two of the most important ones:
Lycopene: is a robust antioxidant which is accountable for the red colouring in numerous foods such as carrots, red grapefruit, watermelons, papayas and tomatoes (but not cherries or strawberries). It is a carotene that exists in many red-orange natural foodstuffs.
Lycopene is deposited in the adrenal glands, the liver and the testes, which seems to make it particularly effective against prostate cancer. Research continues and there is not enough proof to persuade the world’s Western health authorities yet, but it is accredited as a non-dangerous food dye in the USA, Europe and Australia.
Lycopene is normally best eaten raw, but with one extraordinary exception – tomatoes. The chemical is more readily absorbed from cooked tomatoes. Hence the advice to eat unsweetened tomato sauce.
Lycopene is not merely beneficial for men as it will help in glandular, heart and liver concerns as well. It is worth keeping an eye on the development of this research vigilantly and adding red fruits to your diet anyway.
Quercetin: is a flavonoid discovered in fruits, vegetables, leaves, grains, and both green and black tea. It is particularly present in (red) onions, red grapes, raspberries, lingonberries, cranberries and tomatoes. (Nota bene all the red fruits).
Studies have shown that naturally produced or wild fruits have a lot more quercetin than the ‘intensively farmed’ varieties. 70% more in with regard to tomatoes. Comparable percentage increases, between 50% and 100%, were discovered for most wild fruits.
Quercetin has anti inflammatory characteristics and some research has indicated that it might help reduce the risk of cancer, but as yet, no leading health authorities have been persuaded that it is functional at preventing or curing cancer. Another one to watch though.
It is not at all difficult to add some of these foodstuffs into your diet. Scientists have been telling us for decades to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, simply make certain you add a few more red ones and drink tea rather than coffee.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with the proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
As men become older they run more and more danger of developing prostate cancer. Some doctors recommend regular check-ups after the age of 50 or even 60, but others suggest that you ought to begin checking at 40.
It seems wiser to begin checking as early as you are able and definitely at 40 or 50 years of age, because the earlier it is noticed, the more chance you have of surviving it. The difficulty with prostate cancer is that it spreads more quickly than most cancers.
In this article, we will try to give answers to a couple of basic questions that you may have concerning this male illness. However, there is only room here for the basics, so please take serious questions to your doctor.
What is the prostate gland and where is it? The prostate is around the size of a walnut, but is conical in shape. It is part of the male reproductive system and is linked to the penis because it is wrapped around the urethra right up near to the bladder.
This puts the prostate somewhere between the anus and the penis. Because of its location, it is not easy to get at and so most examinations are rectal ie from the colon. Many men find this embarrassing, which is why a lot of men put of a check-up until it is too late.
What are the chances of having prostate cancer? White American males over the age of 50 have a one-in-six risk of getting some malignancy.
Hispanics and Blacks have a one-in-four risk. However, all these figures increase if there is a history of prostate cancer in the family.
What are the indications of prostate cancer? This question is not simple to answer, because the symptoms can look like other concerns and everyone knows that ‘all old men’ have bladder concerns
The prostate swells as it grows older anyway, so this could be the cause of urination concerns. This is characterized by urinating a little at a time, but having to urinate often. Sometimes there are drips as well after you have put it away.
The indications of prostate cancer are comparable but may include blood in the urine and lower back pain. If you have anything like these problems, you need to have a check-up as soon as possible.
Can prostate cancer be diagnosed early enough to save life? Luckily, the answer to this is yes. There are two forms of examination: 1] the DRE – digital rectal exam (or ‘finger up the bum’) and 2] the PSA blood test (prostate specific antigen), although this test is frequently only carried out if the DRE raises suspicions.
If the cancer is caught early enough through regular screening, the chances of living more than five years are over 90%. Continued success depends on several causes, but the cancer can also be totally eradicated never to return.
It can not be stressed too much, that, as with some female-specific cancers, success fighting this cancer depends on catching it early.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with the proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The prostate is an organ only existing in the male body – women do not have one. It is located deep within the under part of the body and surrounds the neck of the bladder and the first section of the urethra. It is quite small being about three by four centimetres and is most easily accessed from the back passage.
A few things can go wrong with the prostate and it is very probable that one of them will affect every man in later life to some degree or another. Some of the most common concerns are:
prostatitis which is the swelling of the prostate due to bacterial disease
the benign enlargement of the prostate which is a common part of the aging process, affecting numerous men over 50 years of age
prostate cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer in men
The growth of prostate cancer seems to be definitely linked to the presence of the male hormone androgen. Castration has a noticeable positive effect on the growth of prostate cancer.
The prostate is conical in form, but has five distinct lobes. Cancer nearly always develops in the rear-most lobe, whereas benign growths appear to prefer the other lobes.
All concerns with the prostate have the effect of making urination a problem. This is why older men tend to go to the toilet often. Prostate cancer also grows faster than most other variations of cancer.
Because of this, older men should have tests for prostate cancer fairly often. Not only does prostate cancer grow rapidly, but it also spreads rapidly. The medical term for this spreading is ‘metastasis’.
If this kind of cancer is not caught early, it will spread rapidly through the diverse internal organs, the lymph nodes and the blood. Death may happen soon after diagnosis, unless it is caught at a very early point.
Self diagnosis is almost impossible because it is a small internal organ buried between the penis and the anus. One of the first symptoms is a difficulty with urination, but by then it can already be too late to prevent metastasis.
If the cancer spreads to the bladder and urethra, urination will get painful and there might be blood in the urine as well. If the cancer is advanced, urination may be impossible and kidney issues will follow soon. Kidney failure or kidney disease is a frequent side-effect of prostate cancer.
If the metastasis is well advanced, there could be back pain in the lumbar area or in the hips. Shortage of breath would indicate a further progression of the cancer to the lungs. A general feeling of weakness might be the next symptom.
if caught early enough, prostate cancer can be treated quite successfully. Often a catheter is needed, but it could also mean dialysis if the kidneys have been badly affected.
Part of the prostate can be removed, but it is also possible to remove it completely, although not without consequences. Other solutions include hormones and chemotherapy.
Some individuals believe that prevention can be procured by homeopathic treatments or a healthy diet, but the jury is out on that one officially.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with the proton prostate cancer treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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