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It can be very depressing for you if you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and as a result of your treatment, have to combat impotence as well. You have feelings of inadequacy and feel as if you have lost your manhood. Prostate cancer treatment has been known to cause impotence. This is because the prostate gland is in close proximity to the nerves that control and enable erection and any nerve damage sustained during surgery or radiotherapy can cause penile dysfunction. You should therefore discuss about the chances of developing impotence with your oncologist before you start your prostate cancer treatment.

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Prostate cancer can affect all ages in men, from very young men through to their full adult life, and beyond into the 65. It is important to note that even though, prostate cancer is a cancer of sorts, the patients that have been killed by the cancer, is in fact, far less that those patients killed by other diseases, infections and various other circumstances. First of all prostate cancer, of course, should not be taken lightly in any case, but should be kept within its reasonable margins of explanation.

It is however, not unusual to have vast generalizations about the disease. Weighing up the pro’s and the con’s with Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists have been trying to find a cure for advanced prostate cancer or at least a solution for delaying the disease’s effects. So, they have created a vaccine that seems to improve the immune response to fight prostate cancer. The vaccine is still under clinical trials to test its complete efficiency, to adjust doses and to see if it works on less advanced prostate cancer. Eric J. Small, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and urology, along with other 19 US institutions conducted the study which was funded by the Dendreon Corporation (the developer of the vaccine) based in Seattle, Washington. They tested 31 patients who were suffering of asymptomatic metastatic hormone refractory prostate Read the rest of this entry »

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In US, prostate cancer is quite common and more than 200,000 new cases are discovered every year. Asymptomatic metastatic HRPC is known to be resistant to hormone therapy used in early detected prostate cancers and no other treatment is effective against it. A new study has been made in California in order to see if the prostate vaccine against cancer is really useful. In July1, 2006 the Journal of Clinical Oncology published the first conclusions of this research. Scientists said that the rate of survival increased by four and a half months in those who were administered the cancer vaccine compared with those who got the placebo.

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With the majority of things in life it is fair to say that the more practiced and experienced you are the better your performance and this would certainly seem to be the case when it comes to prostate cancer surgery. A major problem with cancer is that, in spite of the best efforts of your surgeon, it has a bad habit of returning in a number of cases. In the case of prostate cancer following the removal of the prostate through radical prostatectomy recent studies show that, while the likelihood of a recurrence are about 18 percent when surgery is carried out by a relatively inexperienced surgeon, this figure falls to less than 11 percent in more experience hands. So just what do we mean Read the rest of this entry »