Prostatitis is a common condition that causes your prostate to become swollen and painful. Your prostate is a walnut-sized gland located below your bladder and in front of your rectum. It's part of the reproductive system of all men and people assigned male at birth (AMAB). Prostatitis can...
Scientists don't fully understand what causes enlarged prostate, but they think it's related to changes in your hormones as you get older. Because of the inflammation, prostatitis is typically a more painful condition than enlarged prostate. The main symptoms of enlarged prostate are difficulty pee...
Recent evidence suggesting that inflammation and infection play a role in the etiology of prostate cancer, and the discovery of a novel virus in men with a genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer is reviewed. Almost 20% of visceral cancers worldwide have proven infectious causes. There is substa...
In women the parasite is found in the vagina, cervix, urethra, bladder, and Bartholin and Skene glands. In men, it is found on the external genitalia as well as in the prostate, epididymis and semen. Infections tend to persist longer in women and these parasites may be present in these ...
Use of cancer screening services in Greece and associated social factors: results from the nation-wide Hellas Health I survey. This study estimated the rates of age-appropriate screening practices for breast, cervical, colon and prostate cancer within the general population in Gree... Christine,Dimi...
As matter of fact, any instrumentation or procedure of the urinary system (stenting, cystoscopy, biopsy, and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) can pose a risk for infection of the urinary tract. Diabetes may also increase the risk of kidney infection in both men and women. Other...
My husband is alcoholic and he told me that this has something to do with UTI, prostate? i know he's not telling me the truth and its hard for me to trust him simply because i know i am clean. pls help. thanks peachybum5000 over a year ago Hi, wow have the Doctors given you...
One reason urine may be retained in the bladder is nerve damage, either from an injury, such as a spinal cord injury, or because of a disease, such as diabetes. A common reason for obstruction of urine flow in men is an enlarged prostate, common in men older than 50. Patients with ...
Background: The protist Trichomonas vaginalis causes a common, sexually transmitted infection and has been proposed to contribute to the development of chronic prostate conditions, including benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. However, few studies have investigated the extent to which it ...
Prostate cancer is often described as 'highly inflammatory prostate cancer', and the stimulus for the acute and chronic inflammation is increasingly thought to be infection. Chronic inflammation has long been known to play a role in prostate cancer (1) and questions were asked as long ago as 20...