I have a history of prostate cancer, and received external beam radiation therapy followed by lupron injections concluded in 200l. My PSA was o.oo afterwards. It slowly increased One year ago it as 0.25. Recent PSA results are 0,56. I read somewhere that what is important is how long it takes to double. I have discomfort in my scapula region. May be arthritis or shoulx I be concerned.?|||Go to an orthopedic physician and ask him about the shoulder problem and tell him about your cancer concerns also…The only thing shoulder related that I can think of is that if you have abdominal surgery it may be possible to maybe have an air pocket that goes upwards to the shoulder area when you stand up after a surgery? Something like that?

The US Government spends double on breast cancer research over prostate and the corporate disparity is much greater. Campbells soup doesn%26#039;t have Prostate awareness soup cans! Although deaths from breat cancer are 1/3 higher there are far more cases of prostate cancer, over 240,000 per year. The funding and awarness differential is 300 or 400%. So is it a gender issue, an age issue (tends to be later onset) or What?|||Truthfully, I think it comes down to this: %26quot;the squeaky wheel gets the grease.%26quot; Women have aligned themselves behind this cause and worked together- socially, politically- to bring attention to and fight for the research money. They have banded together to raise money and awareness. They%26#039;ve gone through the necessary steps to make sure that this problem is not ignored.

Men should do the same for prostate cancer.

This is one area that men could learn something from the example of women. I%26#039;m not saying this to be sexist. I%26#039;m saying it because it%26#039;s the truth. Men need to band together and fight for what they want. Things aren%26#039;t just handed to any of us on a %26quot;silver platter.%26quot; We had to struggle for what we wanted to achieve.

Prostate cancer indeed does deserve more attention. Men have the power (same as women) to bring this issue to a level of heightened awareness. But I wouldn%26#039;t stop there. Awareness is a great first step- a necessary one, but take it further: join in force and be political advocates. Don%26#039;t stop until you reach your goals! You%26#039;ll find out, along the way, that as others gain awareness, more people will join in the fight for your cause…not just men, but women, too.|||people like boobs more than butt holes|||It%26#039;s %26quot;sexy%26quot;, for one thing. I know that sounds horrible, but anytime the word breast is involved, a cause gets more attention.

Another reason is for the lobbying and activism of many, many people. Both types of cancer can generally be dealt with quite well by early screening, however, even that is not failsafe.

Personally, I think we should move on to other causes. %26quot;Awareness%26quot; in particular is such a waste of funds! We%26#039;re aware already - now let%26#039;s use money to reasearch diseases that have no known treatment. Autism, for example, is sorely lacking in research funding compared to AIDS, but we all know how to avoid AIDS - not so for autism.|||that%26#039;s a really good question. maybe because stronger women are more interesting then stronger men?

it%26#039;s not a good answer, but it%26#039;s all i can think of =/|||I do not believe your stats are right that there are more prostate cancer cases. One in seven women will contract breast cancer in her lifetime.

And if we aggregate the amount of money spent over the years on studies exclusively devoted to men, what is spent on breast cancer research (i.e. women%26#039;s health) is still a drop in the bucket. It wasn%26#039;t until recently that researchers even began including women in their trials.|||Perhaps because women are viewed as the %26quot;weaker sex%26quot; who apparently require more attention than men do, rather than equals whose issues both deserve equal effort towards awareness… or maybe our society has progressively been %26quot;feminising%26quot; (you know that I dislike using that word), as has some aspects of our court system, where the woman is typically favoured in cases of divorce and child custody… or there%26#039;s a conspiracy for world domination on behalf of women…

hehe, I keed.

Whatever it may be, it isn%26#039;t right that women would be the primary focus of any form of awareness, and in health particularly, men tend to suffer more health problems than women do (and die younger).

I think that we should be treated equally. This is my opinion.

Edit: Excellent point Glo. It didn%26#039;t occur to me, the convenient politics within social awareness.|||For the same reason that women%26#039;s heart disease is just now coming to the forefront… For the same reason there is very little talk about testicular cancer, which onset is between 13-25 …. Money! Public awareness is whatever is clever at the moment… God bless****|||Women are more apt to openly discuss issues regarding our organs. We%26#039;re more huggy, lovey, support kind of beings. Men tend to be more embarrassed about their prostates, testes, etc. I think that%26#039;s at the root of this whole thing.Whereas women would rally together to get breast cancer noticed in society, men would rather not talk about their prostates.|||Breast cancer is not JUST a woman%26#039;s issue, whereas prostate cancer is. About 1,700 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 450 will die each year. Not a huge number in comparison with women, I agree, but still something for you guys to think about.|||What about heart disease? It kills more women than breast cancer, and is a silent killer.|||Your statistics are inaccurate. Only in a few developed nations does prostate cancer come close to killing as many men as does breast cancer kills women worldwide. There has been very little money ever spent on medical research related to women%26#039;s health. Women were not typically even included as research subjects. Medical science is playing desperate catch-up right now, especially related to enormous, until only recently acknowledged, physiological differences between females and males in regards to chemistry, pharmacology and nutrition and so on.

Breast cancer typically kills a larger percentage of women worldwide than prostatic cancer kills men, except in highly developed nations such as the U.S. where diet largely is to blame and where the percentages are about the same. The etiology or causes of prostatic cancer are much better understood than are the causes of breast cancer. We do not know what causes breast cancer in 95% of the cases. That greater mystery requires greater funding and research focus than does a better understood disease.

Also, because prostate cancer does not usually occur until later in men%26#039;s lives and because it affects African-Americans more than others has led in the past to some disregard for prioritorization based on ageism and racism, certainly not sexism. But, the total disregard for women%26#039;s health research has been largely based on sexism.

As mentioned above, a greater awareness is generating related to enormous differences between males and females in such areas as nutritional requirements and health consequences. In order to begin to more accurately comprehend ANY cancer, gender-based research is imperitive. For example, women who consume soy products prior to adolescence have significantly reduced risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. But, soy product consumption for boys prior to adolescence does not reduce their risk for prostate cancer. But, as you know, reducing red meat consumption does reduce the risk of prostate cancer.|||It%26#039;s a fault in a fashion. Cancer is a serious stuff, and every form of cancer deserved to have funds, and education about prevention. But maybe prostate cancer is still something who requires regular checkups. Usually, when you find there%26#039;s something really wrong with your prostate and your testes, is too late. The only prevention avaiable is a regular check-up in adult age.

Breast cancer has the %26quot;advantage%26quot; of leaving marks than a trained woman can feel on herself just showering and touching her breast searching for lumps and stuff. If she%26#039;s told how and when.|||Because

1. Researchers used to ignore breast cancer because it has to do with… breasts. And breasts are %26#039;dirty%26#039;, and only for sex. You didn%26#039;t used to be able to read about breasts, nevermind breast cancer. Breasts are naughty, dirty, and shouldn%26#039;t be discussed in polite company (or in public). It used to be unacceptable to use the word %26#039;pregnant%26#039; in the mass media - it was strictly censored and replaced by the more %26#039;socially acceptable%26#039; word %26#039;expecting%26#039;. Also, you didn%26#039;t used to be able to show a pregnant woman on television. Check out %26quot;I Love Lucy%26quot; footage when Lucille Ball was pregnant with %26quot;Little Ricky%26quot; - you will see the pregnant Lucille Ball was exclusively photographed from the WAIST UP. You never see her pregnant belly - EVER; such dirty images would never have made it past the censors.

Pregnancy = dirty

Anything to do with breasts = dirty

2. Breast cancer is the #1 killer of women in America

Researchers are trying to MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME from when the only illnesses worth studying were those males suffered from - and then the information extrapolated onto female populations.

HUGE PROBLEM: the findings from work done on male populations often didn%26#039;t - and doesn%26#039;t - apply to females.

Back to the drawing board.

edit:

Maybe some of you will remember an episode of %26quot;All In The Family%26quot; where Gloria, pregnant and as big as a house, is barking right in Archie%26#039;s face %26quot;pregnantpregnantpregnantpregnant…%26quot; and Archie is so offended by the word he is seen wildly flailing his arms in the air, trying desperately to get away from Gloria and the offensive word! I don%26#039;t think that even %26quot;All In the Family%26quot; would have gotten past the censors with the word %26quot;breast%26quot; - and boy, did they ever push the envelope!|||First of all, the men who are directly affected by this have only recently been men from the %26quot;Boomer%26quot; generation and later. Men of previous generations tended to %26quot;suffer in silence%26quot; and be neither politically active about such things nor comfortable even discussing them.

Second, following that last point, the whole issue of even the examinations involved in identifying prostate problems make it a subject about which many men are squeamish. Most men definitely are not going to be comfortable even thinking about the issue.|||I believe that it is because women are more likely to talk openly about something private that affects them. Men with cancer or any other problem are not likely to talk about it publicly. Men want to keep it to themselves.|||men get prostate cancer in their 70s (age does affect spending), they tend to die WITH it - not OF it, it tends to be easily treatable (hormone therapy).

women tend to get breast cancer in their 60s, it is not easily treatable unless found very early, chemo is often used. it has also killed women in their 30s and 40s.

you cannot simply handpick 2 cancers and say why is funding for a woman%26#039;s cancer (men get breast cancer too - but in small rates) than the man%26#039;s cancer. this is just ridiculous.

women were just used as reseach subjects in the 60s. this did a huge disservice to us. women and men may experience diseases differently (heart disease is a good example). we still lag behind. so do minorities.

you want to talk about health disparities? talk about how poor people or minorities often are diagnosed with cancer at later stages and have higher death rates.|||Is is %26quot;visibility%26quot;? Breasts are visible, functional, and have a more widespread interest in them while the prostate is hidden away. There are no testicular cancer, pancreatic cancer or liver cancer soup cans,either.

I do not mean to give a frivolous answer, I feel that all cancers are equally important and more should be done to create awareness and education as to cause and cure.|||That is a real double standard because prostate cancer is just as brutal as breast cancer.

Children`s medical conditions are much more important than adult%26#039;s medical conditions.|||It doesn%26#039;t matter what kind of caner.Cancer is a killer. All types!!!

More studies should be done on Melanoma cancer. There is no cure.Being told one has melanoma is the same as being given a death sentence.

My new boyfriend is a great guy and a real sweetheart but he has prostate cancer and is dying, so my question is if am i at risk of getting cancer or something if we have sexual relations?|||No! Cancer is NOT CONTAGIOUS!|||About as much risk as he does in lower his intelligence in having relations with you.|||I don%26#039;t think that you can get cancer from someone. It is not contagious.|||no of course not…cancer is not contagious. i do hope that your boyfriend recovers though…good luck!|||If he is dying you can`t have sex. If he is not dying sex is harmless.|||No, but it could be rather painful for him. He should probably check with his doctor before you proceed.

I don%26#039;t normally favor sex outside of marriage, but I think it is sweet of you to consider this step. The risk to you is virtually nonexistent.|||Aren%26#039;t you blonde?

Cancers are not contagious.|||No you can%26#039;t catch cancer, I%26#039;d be more worried about AIDS,herpes and pregnancy if your having unprotected sex|||no you wont get anything ,the prostate is on the outside of the uretra up in the body past the root of the penis.between the root and the bladder.just go into the grays anatomy book and you can check it out for your self.good luck L|||Cancer is not a contagious disease. You do not get it from other people.|||cancers are not transferred by sex…

unfortunately, cancer is just something that one person gets, and cannot share with others…

good thing, cancer is bad, and you dont want to have it|||love , cancer is not something that is contagious. it is either passes down through sex linked(either from passed generations in your family or mom and dad) or it can be because of smoking. cancer is not something you catch if you have relations with someone that has it. it is not possible. it%26#039;s not like std%26#039;s that people are prone to catch if they come in contact with other people who has it. good luck with your boyfriend i hope you guys spend as many time together as possible and give him all the support he needs. i thought i would lose my bf from cancer but i didn%26#039;t he is beating it and that is the best new i have ever heard. i wish yours could have done the same. I%26#039;m sorry. good luck and god bless you.|||no!!!!! cancer is not contagious

my hubby take mutivit. everyday and he said he heard in the news this morning that it actually causes prostate cancer…so dont take it every single day…is that true?|||that%26#039;s stupid. vitamins do little to help and little to harm unless you start taking huge amounts of them, basically they are a waste of money unless you actually have one prescribed to you by a doctor.|||No.

anything about prostate cancer|||there are many websites that have useful information on prostate cancer. These vary from patient to patient interaction, all the way to clinical publications on various treatments.

I would recommend starting at www.prostatecancer.com. this is a site for patients by patients.

also here are a few great books:

%26quot;Prostate Cancer - A Patient%26#039;s Guide to Treatment%26quot;

by Drs. Gary Onik and Arthur Centeno

%26quot;Diagnosing Prostate Cancer%26quot; by Dr. David Bostwick

best advise… do your homework just because your doctor doesn%26#039;t offer a particular treatment doesn%26#039;t mean it%26#039;s not the best one for you.

Good Luck!|||Here is a good place to start:

http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/def…|||WebMD

Twelve times as many Males die each year of Prostate Cancer complications that Females do of Breast Cancer complications.

Money spent on the prevention/detection/cure of Breast cancer is four times the money spent on the prevention/detection/cure of Prostate Cancer?

What is the reason for this?|||The answer is simple.

We women have a better lobby and, while it is little known,

control most of the spending in this country.

Indeed many more males die from complications of Prostate cancer than females do of Breast cancer.

The cure for Prostate cancer involves rather drastic surgery

that most males would rather not undertake.

Perhaps in 100 years a less drastic cure for both types of cancer will be discovered and in use.|||more men die because they wait to long to see a doctor ….

women are more in control of their healthcare and there is a need to catch up ….in the past everything was dedicated to the men…even heart disease only took in the male perspective…we were all deemed alike..now they are realizing that symptoms for a heart attack differ on women…no shearing or shooting pains down the left arm like men ….and they are also just realizing that MEN CAN GET BREAST CANCER ALSO|||Dude…donot know where you got your info..but you are %26quot;dead%26quot; wrong…(pardon the pun) Prostrate cancer in 89 per cent of diagnosed cases to age of 70 are 99 per cent correctible…what the f***?

Yet you hear more about charity%26#039;s for breast cancer, why? The Lance Armstrong foundaction is the only Prostate cancer foundation is the only who of which I am aware.|||Yes, and I%26#039;m very pissed off about that. plus more men in the U.S

get and die from H.C.V.Then from HIV/AIDS.( Every year. )|||Prolly cause people care more about titties than testicles.|||www.ustoo.org

www.prostatepointers.org

www.prostatefoundation.org

www.yananow.org|||But many more women DIE of breast cancer statistically! Prostate cancer is usually slow growing and rarely terminal.

I am diagnosed Prostate Cancer by high PSA.PSA is 5 and I am 58 years old. I am worried a lot.

How to find the best doctor who will give me best possible cure will know all experimental options available?

I called University Hospital and they gave me appointment on 27th sept,07 which is one month later and this is not right. I feel I should have biopsy as soon as possible and if tumor is still localized ,then it should be removed as soon as possible.

There are so many doctors and so many treatments. Every one is saying that he is the best and have best results. I am confused and my life and future is at stake. Can somebody guide me how to pick the best doctor and best procedure and most importantly what you will do if you are in my place?

Also what kind of diet ,exercises and non medical measures will help. I have a wife and five kids and they all are worrying equally. Sorry for trouble and thanks for the possible help.|||The National Cancer Institute has a list of designated comprehensive Cancer Centers throughout the US. These centers are among the best cancer programs in the world, they share information, most of them are involved in innovative cancer treatment and research.

NCI: Designated Cancer Centers

http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/cancer_c…

You might also ask other people with this disease where to go and what the best treatment might be:

Prostate Cancer Foundation

http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/

NCI: Prostate Cancer

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types…

ACOR: The Prostate Problems Mailing List

http://listserv.acor.org/archives/prosta…|||i don%26#039;t know where you live or i would find a great one for you. here are some sites that may help you. if all fails go to google and type find doctor for prostate cancer. thats what i did. good luck!!|||In general, you have time as Prostate Cancer is mostly

slow growing, but that is no reason to not go after it.

Have the Biopsy by an automatic machine. No pain.

There are a number of treatments for Prostate Cancer.

My choice was to have it surgically removed. That was 12 years ago. There are problems with this as I have incintinence, and erection problems. But I am Alive and

wouldnt change a thing. The Surgeon said they got it all.

After 12 years I believe him. I manage with the side effects.|||If you haven%26#039;t had a biopsy then I don%26#039;t know how they could have said you definitely have prostate cancer. There are other things like BPH that can cause a high PSA. I know this is very scary because my husband and I have been through it. He didn%26#039;t have a very high PSA but it doubled in a years time so that alerted them to a possible problem. They told him there was only a 6% chance that is was malignant but they did the biopsy to be sure. Unfortunately, it was cancer. He was 50 at the time and chose to have a radical prostatectomy and have the prostate removed. He also had 33 radiation treatments because his PSA was still showing a minute amount. That has been almost 10 years ago and so far so good. All in all from the time he was diagnosed to the time of his surgery it took a couple of months. I was like you and was worried about the time it took but doctors assured us that it was a slow growing cancer and it would be okay. I still worried but it did turn out okay. Not knowing where you are I can%26#039;t recommend a doctor but I will say %26quot;do your research.%26quot; The outcome, especially if you go the surgery route, will depend in a large part on your doctors expertise. The urologist that diagnosed my husband had only done the surgery a few times as he was a young doctor (I asked how many times he had done it.) We asked around and did research and found a doctor in Memphis, TN. that had done the surgery over 1000 times. He was great and my husband did great. Go to your local library and get everything you can on prostate cancer. Get on the internet. Educate yourself. My husband%26#039;s surgeon said he had two types of patients-the kind that came in informed and knew what they wanted and the kind that didn%26#039;t want any details at all, just tell them what to do. It%26#039;s your life and you owe it to yourself and your family to be informed. Honestly, a PSA of 5 is not that high so hopefully it is localized cancer and can be taken care of easily. If you haven%26#039;t had a biopsy yet you might even get lucky and it turn out to be something benign. I wish you the very best and keep the faith!|||www.pcref.org/newly_diagnosed.php

DO YOUR HOMEWORK. PROSTATE CANCER IS USUALLY SLOW GROWING AND AN IMMEDIATE BIOPSY MAY NOT BE THE BEST ANSWER..CONTACT DR.B|||If your PSA was 5 that is not very high. Some men with aggressive prostate cancer have a PSA of greater than several thousand. It could be nothing more than a transitory spike in levels.

For someone your age the normal PSA range is between 3.5 to 4.5 — you are not much higher than normal.

I am not a Doctor but my guess would be that another PSA test 3 to 6 months from now could yield more conclusive results. If it keeps going up it could be a sign that more diagnosis such as a biopsy is needed. If it goes down or is stable you will be near the normal range.

As for diet and exercise use common sense.

Good Luck — remember that as of right now you are close to normal range for PSA.

Try this link:

http://www.psa-rising.com/|||Dont worry. Here one website its very helpful to you. This full and full about how to cure cancer in natural way. Pls u must visit this website u will get answer.|||Your search ends at below site. Have a look at it. It will definitely help you out

http://lnk.in/56um|||I have to agree with Bob, I wouldn%26#039;t start panicking right away. My cousin%26#039;s husband had a PSA of 11 and higher. He was really scared, but I sent him a book that told him what vitamins to take. After about 4 months his PSA was back to normal.

The vitamins are Saw Palmetto berry extract oil: 160 mg twice daily, and Pygeum bark extract: 50 mg twice daily. Try not to worry to much it%26#039;s really not good for your health.

Just remember like Bob said you can%26#039;t be diagnosed with prostate cancer just because your PSA was a 5. Try taking these vitamins not and you could be back to normal by the time you have your doctors apt.|||A PSA of 5.0 is not especially high. Only a biopsy can tell if you actually have prostate cancer and sometimes they miss it. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer 3 yrs ago. PSA was 4.7 after being at 2.5 range for many years. After much research I chose to have treatment at Radio Therapy Clinics of Georgia (rcog.com) because they specialize in prostate cancer treatment and have the highest DOCUMENTED cure rate and lowest DOCUMENTED side effect rate based on their follow-up on the more than 8000 men they have treated in the past 20+ years. My 30-month post implant PSA was 0.2 which is considered cured if it remains there for 10 years or more. I got there in 30 months and only have 7 %26amp; 1/2 yrs to go before I know for sure I am cured but I have had virtually no side effects. I was 67 yrs old when starting treatment. All cancer doctors say they are the best, but RCOG has records to prove they are.

My father-in-law was just diagnosed with prostate cancer for the second time and he is in his 50%26#039;s I think. I was wondering if anyone has faced the same thing and what we should expect. My father-in-law will not talk much about it so any thing you can tell me would be apricated.|||What has likely happened is your father-in-law has just been informed that his PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) level is rising again after surgery. PSA is a hormone that is detected in the blood and higher levels of PSA can indicate the presence of prostate cancer or the recurrence of cancer.

What needs to be determined is whether there is a local recurrence of the prostate cancer (return of the cancer to the area where it was first identified) or distant disease (metastic disease). If it is a locally recurrent cancer Radiation therapy can be of help. If the cancer has spread then Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) and Radiation or Chemotherapy can be of help. This is not good news for your father-in-law or for your family at this time, but there is hope. I have prostate cancer and have recently undergone surgery to remove the tumor. I found the best way to deal with the disease was to be as informed about treatment options as possible; and to choose a treatment that made sense to me. I recommend the following Cancer Survivors website for you and especially for your father-in-law, it is full of information about treatment options and stories from cancer survivors who have been through what your father-in-law is facing and can offer advice based on experience. The link is as follows: http://www.yananow.net/

Good luck to you and your family at this time. Be informed about prostate cancer and the treatments available and the chances for long term survival and a cure are much more likely.|||I knew someone with it. Tell him to stay positive and don%26#039;t worry. Give his troubles to God and stay healthy and eat good, healthy food. Prayer is the best medicine.|||It is important to know what phase the cancer is in. If it is far progressed, he might need to get it surgically removed, which means that for the rest of his life he would have trouble with urination and his sex life. If its not too progressed, of course it can be treated, but realize that any sort of treatment of cancer is a large ordeal. I understand why he would not want to bring it up much. I%26#039;m not a specialist, but there are many promising new treatments involving bracytherapy, chemotherapy, and radiation, so keep your chin up. Good luck|||First of all, I am very sorry about your father-in-laws diagnosis. While I am certainly not an expert on the subject, two people that are close to me went through the same type of Cancer. They both had different treatments and different outcomes so I will tell you what I know about both.

My father-in-law had Prostate Cancer about 8 yrs ago. He underwent the surgery that removed the tumor only, recovered gracefully with only minor bouts of incontinence for the first few months after the surgery and now can function sexually and not have to worry about urine leakage. My Godfather had the Cancer 2 years ago, and chose to have the entire prostate gland removed so there would be very little chance that the disease would come back. He suffered incontinence for the better part of 8 months, had weakness in both of his legs for quite some time, and to this date has not regained sexual function. Chances are your father in law doesn%26#039;t wish to discuss his illness because it is in such a private location and because he is scared and is trying to face making a very tough decision. Being supportive is the very best thing you can do right now, but if he doesn%26#039;t want to discuss it try not to press. Eventually he will have to inform you on his plans going forward, because he will need help with recovery. I hope this helped. Does he have a wife, or someone else that goes to the doctor appointments with him? Learning all that he can about the disease, and it%26#039;s treatment options can be very difficult when his head is swimming after being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. Perhaps having someone at the appointments with him will help sort out the options and aid him in making a more educated decision. It%26#039;s not an easy choice or an easy road, and my thoughts are with you.|||Suggest you get him on the webmd site and into the support group they. He%26#039;ll get answers to a lot of personal questions from people that have been there and medical professionals if desired.(there%26#039;s quite a few alternatives that he has dependent on his particular status)

Been there, done that, before AND after my surgery.|||If your Father-in-law has had surgery for it before, he can have radiation to follow up to zap the remaining cells. I had radiation only, and it wiped out all traces of cancer, and everything works great, my PSA is at zero for 3 years now, so it does work.

Good Luck!

my dad was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. What are the survival rates? I%26#039;ve been hearing like 97% if it%26#039;s caught early. is that true?|||It depends on in which stage is his Cancer. Hope, he%26#039;ll do well. Good luck!|||yeah, if you catch it early and have surgery to remove it, recovery is quite common. prostate cancer is a very treatable cancer|||ask lance, the biker who won so many tour de france races. he had it.|||very good survival rates with treatment and caught early!|||Yes. In much older men, it%26#039;s usually something else that kills them as prostate cancer is very slow growing.|||Prostate cancer is the number cancer with the highest survival rate. My grandfather had it 20 years ago, he died of old age. My father-in law was diagnosed in November and went for the seed implantation and is doing great today - no cancer.

Just get to the doctor to see the course of treatment.

Good Luck :-)|||Think you are close!|||Prostate cancer rates are higher and prognosis poorer in Western societies than the rest of the world. Many of the risk factors for prostate cancer are more prevalent in the Western world, including longer life expectancy and diets high in animal fats. Also, where there is more access to screening programs, there is a higher detection rate. Prostate cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the world, but is the number one non-skin cancer in United States men. Prostate cancer affected eighteen percent of American men and caused death in three percent in 2005.[45] In Japan, death from prostate cancer was one-fifth to one-half the rates in the United States and Europe in the 1990s.[46] In India in the 1990s, half of the people with prostate cancer confined to the prostate died within ten years.[47] African-American men have 50-60 times more prostate cancer and prostate cancer deaths than men in Shanghai, China.[48] In Nigeria, two percent of men develop prostate cancer and 64% of them are dead after two years.[49]

In patients who undergo treatment, the most important clinical prognostic indicators of disease outcome are stage, pre-therapy PSA level and Gleason score. In general, the higher the grade and the stage, the poorer the prognosis. Nomograms can be used to calculate the estimated risk of the individual patient. The predictions are based on the experience of large groups of patients suffering from cancers at various stages.[50]|||can%26#039;t answer without knowing the stage. ask his urologist. basic info is at web md:

http://www.webmd.com/diseases_and_condit…|||If caught early, prostate cancer has a high survival rate. My father in law had stage 3 which was not caught early and he has been in remission for almost 4 years. He had aggressive treatment because of the stage it was in at the time he was diagnosed. With the treatments available today the survival rate is very high for that type of cancer.

My prayers are with you and your father. God Bless.|||Yes, survival rates are very good. It%26#039;s one of the %26quot;best%26quot; cancers to have, *IF* it%26#039;s caught early. Men, however, are not happy about the possibility of losing their prostate because if it is removed (which doesn%26#039;t need to happen all the time but it%26#039;s possible) they can suffer from incontinence and impotence, two very distressing things for men.

However, don%26#039;t worry about your dad just yet. And BTW - Lance Armstrong had metastatic testicular cancer, not prostate cancer.

You can read about prostate cancer here:

http://familydoctor.org/264.xml|||Yes it%26#039;s true. I take care of patients with prostate ca. If treated early, usually by removing the prostate, things go great.|||Most any cancer is bad. But you never hear about all the survivals. There are many.|||(Although I don%26#039;t want to %26quot;cut-n-paste%26quot;, in this case I will for the sake of not trying to rewrite all of the information. However, I edited a few things to fit this specific question. Thank you for your understanding.)

My uncle had prostate cancer. His doctor told him that prostate cancer is very slow growing, but they could go in and remove it if he wanted. After asking a lot of questions, and the doctor telling him that at his age (70%26#039;s) he would most likely die of %26quot;natural causes%26quot; before he would die of the cancer, he decided not to do anything.

But the doctor was wrong in HIS case. He died 3 years later (2001), as a direct result of the cancer.

It did grow slowly at first, but not toward the end. During his last year he began to have the common symptoms of advanced cancer, but the last few months he was in a lot of pain and discomfort. He was in a hospice facility for about a month before his death so they could medicate him enough to relieve the pain.

(My uncle%26#039;s children now say they wish he had gone ahead and had surgery when the cancer was still contained in the prostate, because he might still be alive.)

Although it is considered a slow growing cancer, my personal opinion, after losing 4 family members to cancer (uterine, protstate, leukemia, and 1 unknown because it was so advanced there were tumors everywhere), and 1 who%26#039;s currently battling it (liver), is don%26#039;t be complacent with any medical information received, from whatever source. Be diligent, never be afraid to ask a lot of questions, and research and read all you can on the subject. Knowledge can help your dad and your family in making decisions and fighting the battle to win.

Early detection is defnitely the key, as the earlier cancer is detected the better the chances of beating it. Since you didn%26#039;t mention what stage his cancer is in, it%26#039;s difficult to say what the chances of complete remission are in his case.

However, many men have and do beat prostate cancer. Keep your chin up, be very supportive, learn what you can, and most of all NEVER GIVE UP. Your dad may be the one with cancer, but the entire family is battling it. FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING YOU%26#039;VE GOT.

May God bless your dad and your family.|||Every body is different. Tell your Dad about the cancer information on my page.

God Bless