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(614)-301-3104
Columbus, OH 43213
Educating Our Vision
To teach and prepare men how to overcome prostate cancer. Educating by using life learned experience from defeating prostate cancer. Enlighten patients, family and friends on life changes after cancer. Provides caring and sharing of the concerns of men, while promoting awareness and spiritual growth. Provides mentors to men that will equip them with skills to promote a positive experience that encourages self-esteem, by overcoming prostate cancer.
Overview
No one knows the exact cause of prostate cancer. Doctors can seldom explain why one man develops the disease and another does not. Research has shown that men with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop prostate cancer. A risk factor is something that may increase the chance of developing a disease.
Age: This is the strongest risk factor for prostate cancer. The disease is rare in men younger than 40, with the average age of 70 at the time of diagnosis.
Family history: A man’s risk of prostate cancer is higher than average if his brother or father had the disease. A man with one close relative with the disease has double the risk. With two close relatives, his risk is five-fold. With three, the chance is 97%.
Race: Prostate cancer is more common in African American men. It is less common in Asian and American Indian men. African American males have a prostate cancer incidence rate up to 60% higher than while males and double the mortality (death) rate of white males.
Exposure to Chemicals: Men who served in the military during the Vietnam and Korean wars who were exposed to Agent Orange are at a higher risk for developing prostate cancer (and other cancers/diseases)
The Prostate
A small gland located at the bottom of the bladder, surrounding the topmost section of the urethra, the tube that drains urine from the bladder
Produces prostatic fluid
Connected to the seminal vesicles, which produce fluid that mixes with prostatic fluid to form semen, the substance in which sperm is transported
Tubes from the testicles called the vas deferens carry sperm to the prostate where it mixes with fluid from the prostate and seminal vesicles to form semen.
The signs and symptoms of advancing prostate cancer may include
Pelvic pain
Frequent need for urination
Difficult or painful urination
Blood in the urine
Painful ejaculation
Loss of appetite and weight
Bone pain