Sep 10
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Recurrent Prostate Cancer Not a Death Sentence?
Prostate cancer is, and should be, the number one health concern of men, especially after the age of 40 or 50 years old. You see, the prostate gland is a touchy one as we age, and we must take care of it by eating right and exercising, which actually is very therapeutic for all of our body’s organs, not just the prostate.
Prostate cancer is actually a pretty treatable disease if it is caught in it’s earlier stages. However, like a lot of other cancers, once it has advanced past a certain point, your treatment options become more limited and your likelihood of being successfully treated become much more narrow.
Now, there is new evidence that those that experience recurrent prostate cancer after they have already been treated for it, don’t necessarily need to panic and write their wills. Evidence shows that the majority of men with recurring prostate cancer are likely to die from other causes, not from cancer, and their survivability from the cancer is actually pretty high even after it comes back.
This is a catch twenty two because doctors really don’t know what to tell their patients if it comes back, since there are still men, although a minority, that have a higher risk of dying after they get the cancer back again after treatment. I’m sure if I were a doctor I wouldn’t want to give a patient false hope that everything would be fine if it indeed were not going to be fine, and that is exactly the predicament they are in.
However, this is still good news. Now, if they could just figure out what makes the minority of men more likely to succumb to prostate cancer after recurrence, that would be even better news!
