{"id":16201,"date":"2021-06-24T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:00:55","slug":"know-the-symptoms-of-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/prostate\/know-the-symptoms-of-prostate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Know the Symptoms of Prostate Cancer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a known fact that the older people get, the more they put off going to the doctor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s the same with symptoms of diseases like prostate cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth is that waiting will only limit your treatment options if you do have prostate cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Prostate Cancer Can Kill<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/cancer-types\/prostate-cancer\/statistics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statistics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicate that one in 41 men will die of prostate cancer with an estimated 34, 130 men dying in a typical year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, most men diagnosed with it can beat it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. is home to 3.1 million men who are still alive after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Problem Urinating<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The primary <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/prostate-cancer\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20353087\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">symptom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of prostate cancer is trouble urinating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There can be other causes for this also including enlarged prostate and bladder stones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme and sudden weight loss is another recognizable symptom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other symptoms include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blood in the urine or semen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erectile dysfunction.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A change in the urine stream where it isn&#8217;t steady is dribbling or is excessive.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bone pain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Prostate Cancer Treatments<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New treatments to cure prostate cancer are emerging. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, Provenge, is commonly called a cancer vaccine but what it does is helps your immune system see and destroy cancer cells. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used in a variety of cancer treatments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pembrolizumab is also used in immunotherapy for prostate cancers that cause changes in the DNA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The standard treatment is surgery followed up by radiation treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Results from a new type of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/mens-health\/new-radiation-therapy-prostate-cancer-reduces-deaths-study-shows-n1269566\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">radiation trial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York were released on June 3. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This groundbreaking liquid radiation drug, called LU-PSMA-617 works on older patients who have late-stage prostate cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some said they have no symptoms and their PSA dropped from 100 to zero. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PSA levels indicate whether there is growth in prostate cells that can be a symptom of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s vital to know and recognize prostate cancer symptoms, especially as you age. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early diagnosis and treatment could mean a longer life for you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a known fact that the older people get, the more they put off going to the doctor. 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The truth is that waiting will only limit your treatment options if you do have prostate cancer.\u00a0 Prostate Cancer Can Kill Statistics indicate that one in 41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697],"tags":[1310,1269],"class_list":["post-16201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prostate","tag-prostate-cancer-symptoms","tag-prostate-cancer-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}