What happens to the prostate in cancer?

Answer 1

Cancer begins in one place but spreads and invades various parts of your body, diverting blood and nourishment to the growth of tumours. The tumours themselves are not helpful, and whatever organ they invade begins to stop working.

Plus, the nourishment from your body is more and more diverted to the cancer, causing weight loss and weakness.

Eventually, a vital organ such as lungs or liver becomes useless due to invasion by the cancer, and you can't sustain life any more.

Answer 2

Metastasis.

yes, but usually recurrent infections, and at some point the antibiotics will not control the infections anymore, sepsis will set in and death may be eminient due to the weakend immune system and inability to fight such bacterias

Answer 3

Yes, prostate cancer can kill.

Prostate Cancer: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. It is suggested that prostate cancer kills one man, every 13 minutes, with a worldwide estimates of over 250,000 deaths per year. A study by the National Center for Policy Analysis indicates that over 241,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, in 2011; and it will prove fatal to 34,000 of those who are diagnosed. And there have been studies which indicate that older men, 75 and up will die due to other causes, before prostate cancer kill them.

Early testing for prostate specific antigen (PSA) can help detect abnormalities and save lives, by allowing for its early treatment. Hormone therapy is being used in some men, to shrink the cancer cells, but not all prostate cancer cells respond to this therapy. This therapy does not cure the disease. There are hundreds of studies and experiments going on though out the world, in an effort to find a cure for prostate cancer.

Answer 4

The dread and fear that can come with a cancer diagnosis have their roots in its killer nature: It's the No. 2 cause of death in Americans, second only to Heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even when diagnosed early and attacked with the latest treatments, it still has the power to kill.

Answer 5

There are five stages of prostate cancer, known as the Gleason Scale was developed in the 1960′s by Dr. Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital. The purpose of the Gleason Scale is to grade prostate cancers, also called prostatic carcinomas, and determines the patient's prognosis for recovery., and the changes that take place within the prostate gland as the cancer progresses.

See attached file on the Gleason Scale.

Answer 6

The current treatment options differ depending on the stage at which the cancer is at. If caught early before it spreads to other parts of the body, surgery and/or radiotherapy will be used. If the cancer has spread, then hormone therapy will be added to the treatment options. It depends on the specific patient and what works best in their case.

Answer 7

It spreads into the lymphatic system in the abdomen. From there, it travels to more distant parts of the body. Then finally, it moves into the bones.