Quotes About Prostate

Men with more aggressive cancer who regularly ate chicken and turkey had up to four times the risk of prostate cancer progression.33

The purpose of radiation treatment is to disable the prostate, to stop cancer there from continuing to grow. Because the prostate is the source of PSA, if PSA continues to be made and its level begins to rise, there are two possibilities. Either the cancer has reactivated locally, within the prostate or surrounding tissue, or a distant metastasis—a tiny bit of cancer that probably escaped the prostate before treatment began—has started causing trouble.

With a reputation as a hypochondriac, Hill genuinely suffered from prostatitis, a painful and debilitating infection of the prostate, that would flair up at moments of high stress.