Prostate Cancer Walking the Line

Prostate cancer is 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 microwave), 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.