Possible Side Effects After Prostate Cancer Treatment

There are various treatments in prostate cancer. All these especially the radiation therapy is aiming to destroy just the malignant tumor or the most cancers cells. Most of the time though not just the cancer cells are destroyed but also the healthy cells and tissue. Side effects will be experienced by the individual. A side effect is the undesirable action of the treatment or the effect of the drug given about the patient. Its duration would depend about the type [...] Read more »

What are three factors that affect breast cancer penetrance

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Reasons For Possible Changes In The PSA Levels

Prostate-Specific Antigen or PSA is a substance that the cells of prostate are producing. It is found mostly in semen, but a small amount of it can be found in the blood. Elevated degree of this substance may or may not be a sign that there is a prostate cancer or an enlargement of prostate called prostatitis on the male individual. Most of the healthy men’s PSA level is under four nanogram/milliliter of bloodstream. This figure has been used as [...] Read more »

Two Types Of Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer

Radiation therapy is one of the many treatment options prostate cancer individual has to choose. This is a technique that uses high energy x-rays or any other types or energy. It aims to kill the cancer cells or to keep the cancer cells from growing back again. There are two known types of therapy using radiation which can be used to treat prostate cancer. One is the actual external radiation therapy (XRT) which utilizes a machine or a medical equipment [...] Read more »

Possible Treatment Of Prostate Cancer

A prostate is found in the reproductive system from the male found just below another excretory organ called bladder and it is in front of the lower part of the bowel. It just the same size because the walnut and surrounds most part of the urethra. This gland produces liquids which is part of the semen. Prostate cancer is a type of excretory disease wherein there is an irregular growth of malignant cells form in the prostate’s tissues. This is [...] Read more »

The Radiation Treatment For Prostate cancer

Most men are developing the enlarged prostate at one point of their lives. Symptoms of prostate enlargement include difficulties at the start of urination, frequent urination, and weaker flow of urine. Men suffering these symptoms must seek medical help to make sure that only the enlargement of prostate may be the problem and not the prostate cancer. Prostate cancer has been the 2nd largest cause of death in men. The problem with the prostate cancer is the symptoms. They don’t [...] Read more »

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My name is Chen. I'm 23 years old. I'm working in University Malaya Medical Centre as Pediatric Oncology research assistant. I took Bachelor of Science Genetics and Molecular Biology in University of Malaya before this. Genetics is my favourite subject since i was 16. I feel very curious on how the formation of a complex organism from a seeming formless zygote. How could a single cell gives rise to many kinds of different cells like muscle cells, brain cells and so on? Hope you all enjoy reading my blog. Thanks Read more »