Prostate Cancer in Men Aged 70 Years Old or Older, Indolent or Aggressive: Clinicopathological Analysis and Outcomes.The article discusses a study conducted to analyze clinicopathologic symptoms and survival outcomes in 12,081 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1989 and 2009. The study found ...
These cancers are generally very slow growing, but over time they can affect urinary symptoms. Rarely, advanced prostate cancers can spread outside of the prostate and infiltrate other tissues including lymph nodes and bone tissue. I see prostate cancer most commonly in men older than 60. It us...
Symptoms of Advanced Prostate Cancer Symptoms of advancedprostate cancerinclude: Dull, deep pain or stiffness in your pelvis, lower back, ribs, or upper thighs; pain in the bones of those areas Loss of weight and appetite Fatigue,nausea, or vomiting ...
Risk factors for prostate cancer include older age (cases before 40 are rare),family historyand race. Black men are at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer with one in six Black men being diagnosed in his lifetime versus men of other races who are diagnosed at a rate of one in e...
And by the time symptoms do appear, the cancer is already at an advanced stage, so men have the best chance of survival if it is detected before the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. But too many men take good health for granted. Even when we have noticeable symptoms, we...
Prostate adenocarcinoma is predominantly a disease of older men. Males younger than 50 years account for 1% of all patients with prostate cancer. The authors retrospectively examined cases of prostate adenocarcinoma in patients younger than 50 years of age to determine the natural history and ...
of the prostate, the most common malignancy and second most common cause of male cancer-related deaths in North America (statistics from the American Cancer Society, 1996 and the National Cancer Institute of Canada, 1997), is a major cause of suffering and health-care expenditure in older men...
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Advanced prostate cancer with skeletal metastases entails significant symptoms from both treatment and the disease itself. Although the diagnosis is a common one, knowledge of the symptom experience late in the disease trajectory is limited. The aim of the present study was to describe the experience...
Objective: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most prevalent form of cancer among men and has one of the most favorable survival rates among all cancers. Here we examine the association between depression and anxiety symptoms in a population-based sample of men. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis ...