Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Suggestions For Preventing Prostrate Cancer

By Owen Jones


Make no mistake about it, prostate cancer is a life-threatening disease. Not only that, but it will kill all men that it affects unless they do something to stop it. The number of deaths per annum is falling, but it still stands at just under 30,000 men a year in the USA alone.

Successful therapy relies a great deal on the early diagnosis of the illness and if caught early, the success rate of survival is as high as almost 90%. Prostate cancer can afflict men of all ages, but the older the man, the more chance he has of getting it. The age when the risk begins to rise is 50 years of age.

The occurrence of prostate cancer before 50 years of age is fairly to very rare and is considered to be linked to DNA or hereditary reasons. Therefore, if there is a history of prostate cancer among the men in your family, start planning regular check-ups when you are 40 or even 35, just to be certain.

Numerous people believe that there is a robust link between cancer and smoking, because they contend that smoking can deform the DNA permitting cancers to grow more freely. If you believe this, then it makes sense to stop smoking or never take it up.

Diet is a means to maintaining a healthy body and an effectual immune system. The regular advice is to consume a balanced, low-fat diet which is rich in fresh fruit and vegetables, low in fat and high in fibre. To this you could add high in lycopene and quercetin, both of which are available openly in fruit and vegetables.

Lycopene is the red dye found in numerous fruits such as tomatoes, dragon fruit, red cabbage, carrots, water melons, peanuts and many others and quercetin is discovered in numerous leaves that are used to brew tea, both green and black teas. Some have higher amounts than others.

Drinking water and exercising is an excellent way of massaging the internal organs and flushing out the excess toxins that your body creates just by being alive. Exercise is also said to amplify the immune system and will help you tackle not just prostate cancer but other illnesses as well.

Frequent testing for (prostate) cancer remains the best procedure for the prevention of a life-threatening situation. A PSA test will reveal the amount of antigens that the prostate is releasing into the blood.

This is one of the first indications that there might be a problem on the horizon. Frequent testing will provide a benchmark to see whether the figure is rising, which it might do due to no other reason than your advancing age.

As with all cancers, it is necessary to diagnose prostate cancer early. When your GP is sure that there is a malignant growth there are quite a few methods of tackling it. Which procedure is chosen depends on you and the state your body is in.

You can prepare for the eventuality by keeping your body in passable shape; doing some research and being conscious of the options, which you will need to discuss with your medical doctor.




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