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According to deputy center director Dr. Lital Keinan-Boker, 21 percent of all new malignant tumors – the most common in Jewish men – are prostate cancers. Studies have found that men who eat large amounts of red meat or high-fat dairy products have a greater chance of developing prostate disease.
Only one in four calls to Cancer Council’s 13 11 20 are from men, and only 19 per cent of family, friends or carers called with concerns about the men in their lives.
Thus, prostate cancer testing is important.
Scientific circles try to provide you with exams that may suggest the excellence between aggressive and non-aggressive variants of prostate most cancers.
It’s September and time for Friday night lights, football, turning leaves and prostate cancer awareness!
Lin, MD, professor and chief of urologic oncology at University of Washington in Seattle, along with colleagues carried out the first analysis of clinical factors linked to outcomes of 905 men (median age, 63 years), who were enrolled in the study. If the test reveals a PSA count below a certain level, the PSA blood test may not need to be done again for another ten years. Further treatment, as in a biopsy, depends on how high the PSA is and how much it’s changed from previous readings. In that group, 53% were started given treatment whereas 31% stayed on active surveillance. If further results lead to suspicion around the prostate, an MRI Fusion Guided Biopsy is the next step to determine if an elevated PSA is an indication of prostate cancer. “Slow-growing prostate cancers can be treated with active surveillance”. In 2012, 2,484 patients with invasive prostate cancer were diagnosed; of those, 90% were Jews, 5% Arabs and 5% Christians or without religion determined.
This type of prostate cancer is considered more like a chronic disease that requires treatment of any undesirable side effects.
The treatments vary from “watchful waiting” through to surgery, radiation and hormonal therapy, said the statement. “Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy where a radiation source is inserted inside the prostate through temporary catheters, or with permanent seeds placed into the prostate”.
So besides prostate cancer, what else can cause a PSA to rise, fluctuate or become elevated? “The radiation is tightly conformed to a precise location”.
Men aged 55 to 69 should get checked for prostate cancer, or younger, if he has a family history of prostate cancer or is African American.
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This LiVe Well column represents collaboration between healthcare professionals from the medical staffs of our not-for-profit Intermountain Healthcare hospitals and The Spectrum.
