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Understanding Your Prostate
Intro
How Prostate Cancer Is Different
The Decision Is Up To You
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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Understanding Your Prostate : How Prostate Cancer is Different

It's not easy to understand
prostate cancer

  • On the one hand, it is cancer. So, like other cancers, there’s a chance it could grow and spread and even cause death.
  • On the other hand, prostate cancer is a very different kind of cancer. Most prostate cancers grow very slowly and never cause problems. A few grow quickly.
  • In the early stages, doctors can’t always tell how your prostate cancer will act.
  • If men live long enough, most will have cancer cells in their prostate, but few will die of it. About 60 out of 100 men over the age of 70 have cancer cells whether they know it or not.

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