Male Pill – Impotence Information

Since a prostate cancer symptom can look the same as a symptom of something like BPH (enlarged prostate), it can be easy to mistake one for the other. It's generally during routine examinations that prostate cancer is first detected. If you're showing any of the following symptoms, you should probably go see your doctor immediately:

- Difficulty in retaining or passing urine

- Frequently urinating, quite often a night

- Urine flow that's weak or intermittent

- A painful or burning sensation when urinating

- Blood in semen or urine

- Difficulty in achieving an erection or painful ejaculations

- Frequent stiffness or pain in the lower back, upper thighs, or hips

There are other factors that can affect your risk of developing prostate cancer, which 1 out of 6 American men are afflicted with. This makes it the most common type of non-skin cancer for men. These other risk factor include:

Age. As men get older the risk rises sharply. For men under 40, the odds of being diagnosed with prostate cancer are roughly 1 in 10,000. However, for men between 40 - 59, the risk increases to 1 in every 38, and for men between 60 - 69, the risk jumps to 1 in 15.

Family genetics. A man who has had a father or brother with a prostate cancer diagnosis is twice as likely to develop it himself. The risk rises even more if that diagnosis of prostate cancer in family members occurred at an early age (e.g., 55 years old), or if there were 3 or more family members affected.

Race. Men of African-American ancestry are 60% more likely than Caucasian men to develop prostate cancer, with their odds of dying from it more than twice that of other races. The prostate cancer risk for U.S. men, overall, hovers around 17%. For Asian men still living in Asian countries, the cancer risk is the lowest (about 2%), but as they move into Western cultures, that risk tends to rise dramatically.

Location. In the U.S, men living in cities north of 40 degrees latitude (around Philadelphia, PA or Columbus, OH) experience the highest risk of death from prostate cancer than for men living anywhere else. It's commonly believed that the lower levels of sunlight in the northern regions reduces Vitamin D levels critical to good health.

There are additional risk factors that can lead to demonstrating a prostate cancer symptom and the development of aggressive prostate cancer:

- Significant lack of high-fiber vegetables (e.g., broccoli) in the diet

- High calcium consumption

- Lack of exercise

- Excessive height.

Factors and conditions that apparently don't increase the risk of developing prostate cancer include:

- Being overweight (or having a high body mass index, or BMI)

- An enlarged prostate (or benign prostate hypertrophy)

- Prostatitis

- An overly-active sex life

- Vasectomies

- Prescription and over-the-counter drugs

- Alcohol

Once author Chuck Viccente experienced his first possible prostate cancer symptom, it scared him so much that he started researching and writing articles on prostate enlarged symptoms, prostatitis, BPH, and other male health issues. Here he gladly shares some of what he has learned.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.