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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Prostate cancer is such a slowly evolving disease that older patients may require no treatment because the risk of death from other causes is greater than that of prostate cancer itself.
Prostate cancer is unique among cancers in that the vast majority of men with prostate cancer fortunately will live their lives without ever knowing they have the disease - unless they are tested.
Men with prostate disease or prostate cancer or prone to either may have an acceleration of prostate disease if they take supplemental DHEA, due to increased testosterone.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Prostate Cancer has touched all of the climbers in some way and several are carriers and survivors of the disease.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Prostate tissues are also highly sensitive to androgens, and diseases such as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and prostate cancer are similarly responsive to androgens.
Prostate cancer growth is stimulated by male hormones, and high hormone levels have been linked to risk for the disease in various populations.
When prostate cancer grows or when other prostate diseases are present, the amount of PSA in the blood often increases.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer cells are found in the prostate-the male sex gland located below the bladder and in front of the rectum.
Castration prevents prostate disease and testicular cancer in male bassets.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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While there is no effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer, localized disease can be treated with either prostatectomy or radiation therapy.
If prostate cancer cells escape the confine of the prostate, treatment becomes very difficult and the disease has a much higher mortality rate.
Participants were asked how the breadth of research on prostate cancer could be pulled together to more effectively understand the etiology of the disease and develop interventions to prevent and treat it.
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