Last Updated on January 30, 2021
7. Not Treating Prostate Cancer on time
Is prostate cancer curable? Yes, as long as it is detected and treated on time and at an early stage. And, most of the time, prostate cancer treatment does not involve surgery or chemotherapy sessions. Noninvasive radiation therapy can be an effective and successful treatment for fighting prostate cancer.
If prostate cancer is detected in an embryonic stage, the respective tumors are more likely to respond positively to the respective treatments. But if prostate cancer is detected late, existing treatments may be ineffective. Most doctors use the American Joint Committee on Cancer’s staging protocol.
This protocol categorizes the problem into prostate cancer stages and divides them as follows: assess the local extent of cancer (Stage T); the extent of spread to regional lymph nodes (Stage N); and whether the prostate cancer has spread to the rest of the organs (Stage M). That is why you should always have regular prostate exams, especially from the age of 40.
These are the seven risk factors for prostate cancer you should be aware of, and that can make all the difference in your life. Bear in mind that you have one or more of the risk factors presented above does not necessarily mean that you will have prostate cancer.
However, you should also keep in mind that many people have this problem and have had no known risk factors. Never ignore or trivialize this pathology because there is a high probability that you will know a male person who will die due to this problem, so don’t be part of this statistic.
