The Truth About Prostate Cancer Remedies
Each year, in the United States alone, about 185,000 men are diagnosed with some level of prostate cancer. These new patients are in addition to the roughly five million previously diagnosed with the illness.
Around 28,000 of those five million die every year. Therefore, the number of men with prostate cancer in the USA is rising every year, although some patients are 'completely cured' as well. The question is: what does 'completely cured mean'?
In an article of this size, we can only mention, but not discuss at length, the items brought up. These conclusions; are also my own, although I have reached them after doing my own research.
However, I am not a GP so it is possible that I have made errors of interpretation. If you are interested by the subject of this piece, please do your own investigation or and ask your doctor.
This first thing to point out is that prostate cancer is a cancer and all cancers are very serious. That is self-evident, but it needed saying. There is no cure for the thing we call cancer, whether it be cancer of the gums, cancer of the skin or prostate cancer.
You cannot go into a chemist's, a physician's surgery or even an operating room with cancer and walk out entirely cured. Having said that people do survive cancers and one of the easiest to overcome is prostate cancer. However, it should be reiterated that there is no one complete cure.
There are several methods of treating prostate cancer and halting or slowing the growth of the cancer usually depends on a blend of remedies. Luckily for men, prostate cancer is one of the slowest growing cancers, especially in the early phases.
It is crucial to catch cancer in the early stages, If doctors are to have a chance of beating it. However, 'beating it' in this context means giving the patient a passable chance of living a further five years outside hospital.
Prostate cancer is one of the easier ones to treat and around 90% (some state 98%) of patients will live for over 10 years after treatment. As many men who get the illness are getting on anyway (60-70 years old), this puts them in the bracket where they would most likely die of something after 10 years anyway.
This reasons for this 10 year period of good health is referred to by some people as a cure, but all doctors advise their patients to keep having regular check-ups, because you never can tell with cancer - it might come back again.
Doctors can kill cancerous cells or cut them out, but they do not know why they grow in the first place, so they cannot stop them returning. In this regard, there is no cure just surgery. You are not able to take a tablet to make it go away like you are able to with a toothache.
However, there have been excellent advances in prostate cancer treatments and it may not be long before further advances are made and when they have learned how to cure one cancer, perhaps the ideas and methods can be used on other cancers too.
Around 28,000 of those five million die every year. Therefore, the number of men with prostate cancer in the USA is rising every year, although some patients are 'completely cured' as well. The question is: what does 'completely cured mean'?
In an article of this size, we can only mention, but not discuss at length, the items brought up. These conclusions; are also my own, although I have reached them after doing my own research.
However, I am not a GP so it is possible that I have made errors of interpretation. If you are interested by the subject of this piece, please do your own investigation or and ask your doctor.
This first thing to point out is that prostate cancer is a cancer and all cancers are very serious. That is self-evident, but it needed saying. There is no cure for the thing we call cancer, whether it be cancer of the gums, cancer of the skin or prostate cancer.
You cannot go into a chemist's, a physician's surgery or even an operating room with cancer and walk out entirely cured. Having said that people do survive cancers and one of the easiest to overcome is prostate cancer. However, it should be reiterated that there is no one complete cure.
There are several methods of treating prostate cancer and halting or slowing the growth of the cancer usually depends on a blend of remedies. Luckily for men, prostate cancer is one of the slowest growing cancers, especially in the early phases.
It is crucial to catch cancer in the early stages, If doctors are to have a chance of beating it. However, 'beating it' in this context means giving the patient a passable chance of living a further five years outside hospital.
Prostate cancer is one of the easier ones to treat and around 90% (some state 98%) of patients will live for over 10 years after treatment. As many men who get the illness are getting on anyway (60-70 years old), this puts them in the bracket where they would most likely die of something after 10 years anyway.
This reasons for this 10 year period of good health is referred to by some people as a cure, but all doctors advise their patients to keep having regular check-ups, because you never can tell with cancer - it might come back again.
Doctors can kill cancerous cells or cut them out, but they do not know why they grow in the first place, so they cannot stop them returning. In this regard, there is no cure just surgery. You are not able to take a tablet to make it go away like you are able to with a toothache.
However, there have been excellent advances in prostate cancer treatments and it may not be long before further advances are made and when they have learned how to cure one cancer, perhaps the ideas and methods can be used on other cancers too.
About the Author:
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with natural cures for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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