Monday, August 20, 2012

10 Facts of Prostate Cancer




  • Prostate cancer is one of themost controversial cancersin both diagnosis and treatment.

  • If you’re cursed with a cancer -this is the one to ask for!!

  • Prostate cancer is moreaggressive in a black personthan a white person

  • This is the secondcommonest cancerthat affect men after lung cancer

  • The risk of developing prostate cancer increasesafter the age of 50 years.Majority of prostate cancer are diagnosed in men over 65 years.

  • There are over2 million American mencurrently living with prostate cancer.

  • Charles B. Huggins in 1941 was awarded aNobel prizefor understanding that prostate cancer was dependent on testosterone for its growth and spread and this could be reversed by giving estrogens, the so called‘Chemical Castration’.
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