PROSTATE CANCER

PROSTATE CANCER

The prostate gland makes fluid called semen. The prostate present just below to the bladder in front of the rectum and it surrounds the urethra.

After skin cancer, Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States. It is the second leading cause of death from cancer in men. Prostate cancer occurs more common in African-American men than in white men. African-American men with prostate cancer die more than white men with prostate cancer.

Almost every prostate cancer are adenocarcinomas, Prostate cancer has no early symptoms. Advanced prostate cancer can cause men to have a weaker flow of urine or urinate more oftenly.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF PROSTATE CANCER:

Prostate cancer in  early stage cause no symptoms but prostate cancer in advanced stage cause some symptoms they are urinating oftenly at night, blood in the urine or semen, trouble getting an erection, pain in hips, back and chest or the other areas where cancer has spread, weakness or numbness in legs and feet.

TREATMENT:

The most helpful treatment for prostate cancer includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cryotherapy, hormone therapy, vaccine treatment, bone directed treatment, vaccine treatment and active surveillance.

PHYSICAL SIDE EFFECTS:

The physical side effects you get after the different cancer treatments are pain, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, anemia, lymphedema, infections in people with cancer, fertility and sexual side effects in women, fertility and sexual side effects in men, ostomies, second cancer caused by cancer treatment, chemotherapy effects and radiation therapy effects.

Factors with less clear effect on prostate cancer risk:

  • Diet
  • Obesity
  • Smoking
  • Chemical exposures
  • Inflammation of prostate
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • Vasectomy

PROSTATE CANCER MEDICATION:

 

  • XTANDI:

 

Facts of XTANDI (Enzalutamide) Capsules ?

  • Medicine Name: XTANDI
  • Generic Name: ENZALUTAMIDE
  • Date of Approval: 31.08.2012

Company Name: ASTELLAS.