Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer's disease overview

Prostate cancer (Prostate cancer) ranks 12th in common cancers common in men in Vietnam.

Like other cancers, prostate cancer is not contagious. Living time of patients with prostate cancer depends greatly on the stage of detection. If detected and treated early, prostate cancer can achieve a survival rate after 5 years to 100%.

Causes of Prostate cancer's disease

So far The cause of prostate cancer has not been concluded exactly. However, the ability to screen and detect early early has been improved thanks to the quantitative test of PSA (Prostate-Specific). This is a specific antigen for the prostate, with a value of over 10 ng/ml of the risk of prostate cancer up to 67%.

Symptoms of Prostate cancer's disease

Prostate cancer is a non -communicable disease, slowly developing with symptoms in the early stage quite vague, which can be localized in the urinary tract due to invasive or compression of the tumor such as:

Difficult, urination, urinary retention

Bloody urine

Nights

or other symptoms such as:

Discount weight

back pain, hips, pelvic pain

Difficulties in maintaining erection

Chronic constipation or other intestinal problems

In the late stages and having the patient's di will have symptoms at other organs of the body such as:

Bone pain, pathological fractures ... in bone metastasis

weakness of the lower limb, hemiplegia ... due to the vertebrae metastases to compress the spinal cord causing neurological syndrome

Metastases in the brain, lungs, stomach, liver, adrenal glands or gastrointestinal bleeding are common in the later stage In addition, cancer syndrome, anemia syndrome, scattered endothelial clots should also be noted in the late stage of the disease.

People at risk for Prostate cancer's disease

Prostate cancer is estimated at 80% of men under 80 years old and is most common at the age of 60.

Prevention of Prostate cancer's disease

Prostate cancer can be prevented based on the following measures:

Build a healthy diet with low red meat and add more fiber

Periodic health checks to screen the risk of cancer, especially through PSA tests to detect the disease early in the early stages when the symptoms are almost no

Reasonable exercise and sport

There is a scientific and regular living regime

Diagnostic measures for Prostate cancer's disease

In the early stage, the diagnosis of prostate cancer is quite difficult because there are almost no symptoms. Mainly diagnosed with high PSA during regular medical examination.

If there are symptoms that show invasive and urinary tract compression such as difficulty, urination, hematuria ... more rare, can be obstructed in the rectum, erection The penis or bleeding ejaculation, the rectal examination will be a method of high diagnostic value.

When a rectal examination will help the physician to detect tumors as well as the prostate evaluation of density, size, middle groove characteristics, surrounding level and even the level of invasion and even The condition of the rectal wall, the narrowing of the rectum.

In the late stages, clear symptoms but can be metastatic so symptoms not only help diagnose the disease but also can help assess the metastatic status in Other parts of the body, especially bone metastases.

Prostate biopsy

Prostate cancer's disease treatments

The current treatment trend of prostate cancer is the personalization of the treatment, meaning that the treatment will be changed to suit each stage of the disease to maximize the treatment. .

There are some methods to treat prostate cancer as follows:

Surgery: Patients will be removed from the entire prostate, two seminal vesicles with pelvic lymph nodes on both sides. This method can be applied when the tumor is still located in the prostate (corresponding to the stage I or II of the disease). At Vinmec has now applied laparoscopic surgery by robot to treat prostate cancer, bringing outstanding effect.

Endocrine treatment: Because the cancer is paralyzed sensitive to male hormones, the cutting of two patients's two testicles or using inhibitors reduces the hormonal of male hormones will cut the source cung cấp tiết tố nam giúp ngăn chặn khối u phát triển.

Radiation therapy: is radioactive projection to kill cancer cells: irradiation from the outside is called external radiation and transplant radioactive particles into the long gland called radiation therapy . chemotherapy: Not a root treatment with prostate cancer but used in the testicular cutting stage, meaning hormonal treatment is no longer responding to anymore. .

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