Need to know about Prostate Cancer?

I have this friend, who is only 34, he has Chronic Infection of the Prostate. I learned from my brother that it could turn into cancer. I wanted to know how long can a man live with prostate cancer?

Need to know about Prostate Cancer?
Hello,





as one of the previous answerers has mentioned it DOES sound like your friend has "chronic prostatitis" - which is an inflammation of the prostate. This may or may not be related to an infection of the prostate, and is quite different from cancer. There are some people who believe that chronic prostatits increases your risk of prostate cancer although it is not really clear that this is the case. If there is an increased risk of prostate cancer with chronic prostatits, then this increase is very small.





It should also be noted, that even if your friend's chronic prostatitis results in him having cancer, at age 34, it will be many years before this even begins to occur. Prostate cancer is a cancer that is related to age. Only about 5% of 50 year old males have prostate cancer but by age 80 about 80% of men will have it. The vast majority of these men have absolutely NO difficulties from this cancer and will never know that they have it. (They will die with the disease, but not OF the disease.)





Finally to answer your question: Once a man is known to have prostate cancer, how long can he live? The vast majority of the time the answer is MANY, MANY years. Patients who have their cancers detected either via the blood test (PSA) or from the digital rectal examination rarely die from prostate cancer in the long run. In fact, it is not even clear that these cancers even need treatment! - although most of these men will choose to received some form of treatment. For those whose cancer comes back after treatment (and this is only about 10-15% of these low-risk men), it will typically return ~5-10 years AFTER they are treated. Once it returns, and if it is not cureable, the men will typically die of their disease anywhere from 5-10 years following this! So for men whose cancers are detected early, the vast majority can be cured (or do not need treatment!), and those whose cancers are not cured will still live 10-20 years.





There are a smaller proportion of men, who present with more advanced cancers (higher PSA levels, or spread of the tumour at diagnosis) whose cancers will tend to spread more rapidly, and may die more quickly of the disease. This does not apply to your friend (who does not even have cancer), but even in these cases, patients will still typically live anywhere form 3-10 years with the disease.





Hope this helps with your question.
Reply:personally I would look it up in google or Yahoo! so that you get true information.





I'll look it up for u and give you the URL.





http://www.news-medical.net/?id=22510
Reply:Prostate cancer is usually adenocarcinoma. Symptoms are rare until urethral obstruction occurs. Diagnosis is suggested by digital rectal examination or prostate-specific antigen measurement and confirmed by biopsy. Prognosis for most patients with prostate cancer, especially when it is localized or regional, is very good; more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Treatment is with prostatectomy, radiation therapy, or, for some elderly patients, watchful waiting.
Reply:Ablation.
Reply:It sounds like you're talking about prostatitis, which is not prostate cancer. Two completely different problems. As for symptoms of prostate cancer, in the early stages, there are no symptoms of prostate cancer. This is why early detection is done with PSA and physical exam.
Reply:Try this link:





www.psa-rising.com





Infection and cancer are two different things.