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September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

This Article was Written September 19th, 2008

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Doctors will diagnose more than 186,000 US men with prostate cancer this year.
And, each patient will have to weigh their treatment options and learn more about the diagnosis.
That’s why September has been declared National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month - spot lighting this highly treatable disease.

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America, affecting 1 in 6 men. And it’s estimated there are more than 2 million American men currently living with the disease. But if caught early, many of those men will be cured.

According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, while a diagnosis for a man under the age of 40 is low, the rate shoots up to 1 in 39 for men in their 40 and 50s. And the incidence is even higher for men in their 60s.

If the cancer is caught at an early stage, most men will not experience any symptoms.
Symptoms may not be present until the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. If that’s the case the cancer is less curable, but can be slowed down.

That’s why doctors encourage yearly screening for men 50 and older and even earlier for men at risk.

Dr. David Roskinsky with Urology Specialists says, “I would say 45, even 40 depending on what age your family relation had that prostate cancer.”

Treatment options have changed over the last few years and now surgery is minimally invasive. Robotic Prostatectomy has become the number one treatment for prostate cancer.

For more information about treatment options, please visit www.proxcelan.com

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Kelli Grant
© 2008 KELOLAND TV. All Rights Reserved.

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