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Prostate
Cancer:
Walking The Line |
Prostate
cancer are two words that immediately register fear and out and out
terror in the minds of many Americans as well as people around the
world. For decades it seemed that the
likelihood of men dying from
prostate cancer would have continued to climb with each passing year.
You probably even heard of younger men succumbing to prostate cancer as
well as an increase of older men who were being stricken with prostate
cancer. If you listened to the media you would’ve probably
concluded that being diagnosed with prostate cancer was an automatic
death sentence for men, and if you believed what they reported you
would inevitably have concluded that growing old is more of a curse
than a blessing…and you would’ve been
wrong—very wrong.
Prostate cancer treatments are many and varied it just
depends on who you talk with and what’s their particular
protocol for prostate cancer treatment(s). There are those who swear by
homeopathy (diseases treated with drugs thought to produce the same
disease), home remedies, hormone therapy, orchiectomy (castration),
radiation therapy, prostatectomy, radical prostatectomy,
“watchful waiting”, surgical procedures
(transurethral incision, transurethral resection, transurethral micro
wave), various types of therapies, cryosurgery, and the list goes on
and on.
All men between the ages of forty and eighty-five are at risk
of developing prostate cancer; however, prostate cancer detection is
not an automatic death sentence. In fact, most men diagnosed with
prostate cancer will probably die from something else; in other words,
prostate cancer is a diseased that can take years to fully develop and
then it is not an automatic death sentence for most. It has been proven
that many men who had prostate cancer died from something else totally
unrelated when an autopsy was performed. In the United States less than
20% of men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer died from it, the
other 80% died from an unrelated cause.
Prostate cancer is not a guaranteed death sentence for most
men, although it is true that each year close to twenty thousand men
die from prostate cancer, yet that number is less than 10% of all men
being diagnosed with prostate cancer yearly. Clearly, there is much to
be done to improve on the survival rate of the 10% of men that die each
year from prostate cancer, but the truth is much has been done to
reduce the survival rate from over 90% at one time to just fewer than
10% at this time.
A great deal of research and development has gone
into the study of prostate cancer and from the ongoing study has come
many new and innovative medical procedures, medications, advance
technological equipment, therapeutic treatments, as well as homeopathy
in the fight against prostate cancer. Prostate cancer has been known to
cause urinary
incontinence in men, as well as urinary
tract infections.
Breakthrough discoveries are just around the corner in
practically every aspect of treating prostate cancer. Within the past
quarter of a century prostate cancer treatment has reached astounding
heights from where it once was in the early 1980s. The survival rate
has more than triple since that time and more work is being done at the
present to ensure that more and more men become survivors as opposed to
victims. With each passing year comes more and better treatments to
help men who have prostate cancer live better and longer lives without
a lot of pain and suffering that offers such a poor quality of life.
Prevention and Cure
With each man that is diagnosed with prostate cancer comes a
need to be extremely diligent in practicing good health habits to help
fight this most dreaded disease. It is not just the duty of highly
skilled surgeons, or dedicated primary care givers; nor is it left
entirely on the shoulders of men and women who work day and night in
research and development departments around the world in their tireless
efforts to discover new and more effective medications; build advance
technological equipment; test new therapeutic treatments, as well as
the examining of foods, drinks, and regimens to help alleviate
suffering for prostate patients and possibly finding a cure that will
someday end prostate cancer and the death and suffering that goes along
with it.
It is the responsibility of each and every patient to do his
utmost when it comes to practicing good health habits in the fight
against prostate cancer. It is incumbent upon all prostate cancer
patients and their personal care givers to become astute in the
implementation of personal procedures and regimens that help to fight
against prostate cancer. There is a wealth of information available to
help inform all patients on how to live better with prostate cancer by
avoiding certain foods, drinks, medications (non prescription drugs)
and practices. Information on exercising, resting, and even meditation
is readily available to assist all prostate cancer patients on how to
live as healthy as possible with the disease and how to help your
doctors help you.
In conclusion, living a quality life in spite of prostate
cancer is not only a possibility but it is and has been for many men
over the years a genuine reality, and for many men with prostate cancer
it hasn’t been the main focus of their lives; instead, a
large number of men after being diagnosed with prostate cancer still
went on to live full and active social lives without the undue stress
of having prostate cancer—it happens everyday. You can really
do a great service to yourself by staying optimistic and not only
having but sharing a positive attitude with those around you as well
as those you encounter.
With prostate cancer much like any other disease or life
threatening condition; a defeatist attitude can all but doom your
chances of survival, while on the other hand refusing to succumb to any
illness or disease will help elevate your emotional, psychological,
mental and spiritual well being to another whole new
level…and that just might be the level where you become
cured. After all, you have nothing to lose, so get started and fight
with all your might. Here’s to wishing you well—all
of you. |
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