Prostate Cancer: Causes and Treatments

What is Prostate Cancer?

Prostate cancer is second only to skin cancer as the most common types of cancer among men. The prostate is a male sex organ. It's the size of a walnut and produces the thick fluid in semen. 

Causes:

When more cell division takes place than is normal, a tumor can occur. A prostate tumor can be either benign or malignant. Malignant tumors are cancerous and can invade and destroy healthy cells in the surrounding area. Although usually slow growing and remaining encapsulated in the tough covering of the prostate, cancerous tumors can eventually grow beyond their original area and metastasize or seed surrounding tissue with new tumor cells and bring cancer to other regions of the body.

Symptoms: 

Early Prostate Cancer usally show very little to no symptoms. Possible symptoms are: frequent urination, increased urination at night, difficulty starting and maintaining a steady stream of urine, blood in the urine, and painful urination. Advanced Prostate Cancer can spread to other parts of the body like the bones and other organs.

Treaments:

Epidermological studies done show that having selenium, vitamine e, soy foods and lycopene as a regular part of ones diet can help protect one against prostate cancer. In tests done on the effect of fatty acids that are found in most vegetable oils on the coidition showed increased prostate growth effects and sped up histopathological progression while omega 3 oils in fish oils had the opposite effect.

Find out more about Prostate cancer by visiting the Prostate Cancer Foundation