"Here are some key points about the prostate cancer. More detail is in the main App.
Prostate cancer is cancer of prostate gland. The prostate gland is a walnut-sized gland present only in men, found in the pelvis below the bladder. The prostate gland wraps around the urethra (the tube through which urine exits the body) and lies in front of the rectum.
The prostate gland secretes part of the liquid portion of the semen, or seminal fluid, which carries sperm made by the testes. The fluid is essential to reproduction.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer that develops in men and is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in American men, behind lung cancer and colorectal cancer. In 2017, the American Cancer Society estimated that 161,360 men will be newly diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer affects the prostate gland, the gland that produces some of the fluid in semen and plays a role in urine control in men.
Features:
facts.
What is prostate cancer?
What causes P-cancer?
The risk factors.
The signs and symptoms.
What specialists identify and treat P-cancer?
What tests do health care professionals use to diagnose it?
biopsy results.
How accurate is the PSA test?
The stages of prostate cancer.
The treatment options for prostate."
9Apps 4.9
