Monday, January 13, 2014

A PROBLEM OF HEALTH

PROSTATE: A PROBLEM OF HEALTH increasingly serious.
Fearless prostate
Nowadays, this small organ, approximately 20 grams (size of a walnut), is becoming a problem of increasingly serious public health to the point that in countries like the United
States already spend 1% of their health budget on diseases of the prostate, which is a lot considering the immense range of other diseases.

The prostate is an organ of the genital tract of paramount importance both in fertility, producing secretions that form part of the sperm, as in ejaculate, contributing to the expulsion of semen to the outside environment.
Can be affected by various diseases such as inflammation, known as prostitutes, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is their most fearsome and exaggerated growth that is prostate cancer.
This cancer is now the most frequent malignant tumor in the male population and the second cause of cancer death (behind only lung cancer).

Both BPH and prostate cancer tend to affect the male population as early as the fourth and fifth decades of life.
The latter, as well as more severe, tends to have a silent growth without symptoms, and these may arise when denote an already advanced disease.
All have nowadays, numerous methods of diagnosis and treatment for optimal results.
Therefore, it is always important that men seek to prevent.

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