Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men after skin cancer. The prostate has various functions. These include producing the fluid that nourishes and transports sperm, secreting prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a protein that helps semen retain its liquid state, and helping aid urine control.
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting males. Around 1 in 8 males will receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer at some point in their life. However, only 1 in 41 of these will die as a result. This is because treatment is effective, especially in the early stages. Routine screening enables doctors to detect many cases of prostate cancer before they spread.
Signs and symptoms of Prostate Cancer
There are often no symptoms during the early stages of prostate cancer, but screening can detect changes that may indicate cancer. Screening involves a test that measures levels of PSA in the blood. High levels suggest that cancer may be present.
Males who do experience symptoms may notices:
- difficulty starting and maintaining urination.
- a frequent urge to urinate, especially at night.
- a weak urine stream.
- blood in the urine or semen.
- painful urination or ejaculation.
- pain in the back, hips, or pelvis.
Advanced symptoms
People with advanced prostate cancer may also show no symptoms. Potential signs will depend on the size of the cancer and where it has spread in the body. In addition to the above, advanced prostate cancer can involve the following symptoms:
- bone pain
- unexplained weight loss
- tiredness
Effects on fertility
The prostate gland plays a role in sexual reproduction. Prostate cancer and its allopathic treatments affect fertility in several ways.
For example, surgery to remove the prostate gland. the penile muscles or the testicles will affect semen production, fertility and erection. Also, radiation therapy can affect prostate tissue and penis functional muscles, damaging sperm and reducing the amount of semen for transporting it and also cause erectile dysfunctioning. Hormonal treatment can also affect fertility and erection.
However, some options for preserving these functions include banking sperm before surgery or extracting sperm directly from the testicles for artificial insemination. 
There is no guarantee that fertility will remain intact after treatment for prostate cancer. Anyone who would like to have children after treatment should discuss fertility options with their doctor when they devise their treatment plan.
Causes
Researchers are unsure of the exact cause of prostate cancer. My (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) study and experience show that stopping the urine for long time is playing the key role in prostate cancer.
When prostate gland cells appear abnormal, a doctor may refer to these changes as prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN). Nearly 50% of all males over the age of 50 years have PIN.
At first, the changes will be slow, and the cells will not be cancerous. However, they can become cancerous with time. Cancer cells can be high or low grade. High grade cells are more likely to grow and spread, while low grade cells are not likely to grow and are not a cause for concern.
Risk factors
The following risk factors may make it more likely:
- Age: The risk of prostate cancer increases after the age of 50, but it is rare before 45.
- Race or ethnicity: The condition is more common in Black people than white people. Asian and Hispanic people have a lower risk than Black or white people.
- Family history/Genetic factors: A person with a close relative who has a history of prostate cancer has a higher chance of developing it themselves. Inherited features, including changes to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, may increase the risk. Mutations in these genes also increase the chance of breast cancer. Men born with Lynch syndrome also have a higher risk of prostate and other cancers.
- Diet: I (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) suggest that high palm oil and canola oil and pork and pork fat use may increase the risk of prostate cancer.
- obesity
- smoking
- alcohol consumption
- exposure to chemicals, such as the herbicide Agent Orange
- inflammation of the prostate
- sexually transmitted infections
- vasectomy surgery
What about trans people?
People born with a prostate can develop prostate cancer. Individuals born without a prostate cannot develop prostate cancer.
Trans women who use hormone therapy such as estrogen may have a lower risk, but the risk is still present.
Stages of Prostate Cancer
Staging typically describes how much cancer is present in the body and how serious the cancer is. Knowing the stage of prostate cancer can help a person understand what to expect and will inform decisions about treatment.
Cancer staging is complex and accounts for many different factors. Usually, the lower the number, the less the cancer has spread. Stages may include:
- Stage I: Cancer is only present in the prostate gland.
- Stage II: Cancer has not yet spread from the prostate, but a person will have a higher PSA level.
- Stage III: The cancer may have spread to nearby tissues.
- Stage IV: Cancer may have spread to distant parts of the body.
Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
A doctor will likely:
- ask about symptoms.
- ask about personal and medical history.
- conduct a blood test to assess PSA levels.
- carry out a urine test to look for other biomarkers.
- carry out a physical examination, which may include a digital rectal exam (DRE).
During a DRE, the doctor will check manually for any abnormalities of the prostate with their finger.
- PCA3 test: This looks for the PCA3 gene in the urine.
- Transrectal ultrasound: This involves inserting a probe with a camera into the rectum.
- Biopsy: A doctor will take a tissue sample for examination under a microscope.
Only a biopsy can confirm the presence and type of cancer. A person who needs monitoring rather than treatment may need a routine MRI or CT scan.
Allopathic Treatment of Prostate Cancer
Allopathic treatment will depend on the cancer stage, among other factors, such as the Gleason score and PSA levels. It is also worth noting that many treatment options may be applicable, regardless of the stage of cancer.
Early-stage prostate cancer
If the cancer is small and localized, an allopathic doctor may recommend:
Watchful waiting or monitoring
The doctor may check PSA blood levels regularly but take no immediate action. Prostate cancer grows slowly, and the risk of treatment side effects may outweigh the need for immediate treatment.
Surgery
A surgeon may carry out a radical prostatectomy to remove the tumor. In addition to removing the prostate, the procedure may also involve the removal of the surrounding tissue, seminal vesicles, and nearby lymph nodes. A doctor can perform this procedure using either open, laparoscopic, or robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.
Radiation therapy
This uses radiation to kill cancer cells or prevent them from growing. Options for early stage prostate cancer may include:
External radiation therapy: This method uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the cancer cells. Conformal radiation therapy is a type of external radiation that uses a computer to help guide and target a specific area, minimizing the risk to healthy tissue and allowing a high dose of radiation to reach the prostate tumor.
Internal radiation therapy: Also known as brachytherapy, this method uses radioactive seeds that a doctor implants near the prostate. A surgeon uses imaging scans, such as ultrasound or computed tomography to help guide the placement of the radioactive substance.
Treatment will depend on various factors. A doctor will discuss the best option for the individual.
Advanced prostate cancer
As cancer grows, it can spread throughout the body (called you don’t wait you are wasting your time??). If it spreads, or if it comes back after remission, treatment options will change. Options can include:
- Chemotherapy: This option uses drugs to help stop the growth of cancer cells. While it can kill cancer cells around the body, it may cause adverse effects.
- Hormonal therapy: Androgens are male hormones. The main androgens are testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. Blocking or reducing these hormones appears to stop or delay the growth of cancer cells. One option is to undergo surgery to remove the testicles, which produce most of the body’s hormones. Various drugs can also help.
- Immunotherapy: This method uses a person’s immune system to help fight cancer. Scientists can use substances the body produces, or create them in a lab, to help boost or restore the body’s natural defenses against cancer.
- Targeted therapy: This method uses drugs or other substances that identify and attack specific cancer cells. Radiopharmaceutical option may be effective for hard-to-treat forms of advanced prostate cancer (still under experiments).
Homeopathic Treatment of Prostate Cancer
There are many proven Homeopathic medicines for prostate cancer, few of them are:
Sabal Serrulata
It is the most effective medicine to treat benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and can be used to manage almost any symptom of enlarged prostate and has given great clinical results. Polyuria (frequent desire to pass urine), especially nocturnal, difficulty in the initial urine flow, interrupted urination, dribbling urine (slow, intermittent drop by drop trickle). Micturition (Burning sensation while urinating), complaint of erectile dysfunction (inability to achieve or maintain erections firm enough to have sexual intercourse) from an enlarged prostate.
Thuja Occidentalis
Urethra swollen inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after. Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesicae. Prostate.
Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis. Gonorrheal rheumatism. Gonorrhea. Chronic induration of testicles. Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate.
Pulsatilla Pratensis
Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhea. Stricture: urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.
Clematis Erecta
Tingling in urethra lasting sometime after urinating. Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. Interrupted flow. Urethra feels constricted – Prostate. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability to pass all the urine, dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.
Kali bichromium
Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Prostate. Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood. Haematochyluria.
Male: Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation.
Conium Maculatum
Interrupted urine flow. Urine starts and stops several times before complete voiding – drop by drop. After passing urine, burning or pricking pain in the urethra.
Pressure on the bladder, as if the urine were going to issue forthwith violence (with stitches); worse when walking, better when sitting. At night, emission of urine, frequent, and sometimes involuntary, bed wetting. Painful urination. Urine thick, white and turbid or red. 
Diabetes, Frequent clear and aqueous ruination. Viscid mucus, mixed with the urine, which cannot be passed without great pain. Discharge of pus from the urethra. Emission of blood, sometimes with difficulty of respiration. Burning sensation and shootings in the urethra.
Swelling of the testes (after contusion). Cutting pain through scrotum to root of penis. Lasciviousness. Impotence, insufficient erections, or absence of erections. Want of energy in coition. Erections imperfect, and of too short duration. Easy emission of semen, even without firm erections. Dejection, after coition. Flow of prostatic fluid during evacuation, and after any mental emotion. With weakness of sexual organs, much sexual erethism, amatory thoughts, even emissions provoked by mere presence of spouse.
Conium 30C or 200 can be taken thrice a day for good results (Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS).
Lycopodium Clavatum
Urgent want to urinate, with too frequent emission, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine. Frequent micturition by night, with scanty and rare discharges by day. Dark urine with diminished discharge. Greasy pellicle on the urine, with yellow or reddish sediment. Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallized sediment. Involuntary micturition. Turbid. Bloody urination, painless. Old thickening of bladder with irritable urethra.
A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating; retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flows. Urinary tract calculi; cystitis. Hematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh. Smarting when urinating. Itching in urethra during and after emission of urine. Shooting pinching and incisive pains, stitches in the bladder and/or in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time.
Shooting, drawing, and incisive pain in the glans. Gonorrhea, with a deep red and smarting pustule behind the glans. Excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Dropsical swelling of genital organs. Immoderate excitement, or absence of sexual desire. Repugnance to coition, or disposition to be too easily excited to it. Impotence of long standing. Weakness or total absence of erections. Penis small, cold, relaxed. Itching of the internal surface of the prepuce. Excessive pollutions, or absence of pollutions. Emission too speedy or too tardy during coition. Falling asleep during coition. Lassitude, after coition or pollutions. Flow of prostatic fluid, without an erection.
Baryta Carbonicum
Polyuria with abundant emission; it can hardly be retained. During urination, burning in urethra. Diminution of sexual desire, and weakness of the genital functions. Relaxed penis, premature emissions. Falling asleep during coition, without the emission having taken place. Gleet. Hypertrophied prostate. Excoriation and oozing between the scrotum and the thighs. Erections only in the morning before rising. Sudden want to urinate.
Chimaphila Umbellata
Acute prostatitis with dysuria and retention, sensation in perineum as if sitting on a ball. Constant pain in region of kidneys; urine scanty, dark, fetid, thick, with copious sediment. Strangury: constant desire to urinate. Cutting, scalding pain, divided stream; stricture. Urethritis with purulent or profuse mucus discharge. Great quantities of thick, ropy, bloody mucus in urine. Greenish-black urine. Urine scanty; frequently voided, pressing pain before, burning prickling, scalding and smarting during and after, and vesical tenesmus.
Albuminuria; hematuria, from long-lasting gonorrhea; clots of coagulated blood pass with urine. Renal dropsy. Smarting from neck of bladder the whole length of urethra to meatus; excessive itching. Atrophy of testicles. Sensation as if he had bruised one of testicles. Sensation of swelling in perineum, as if sitting on a ball. Gonorrhea; gleet; syphilis; prostatorrhea.
Thiosinaminum
Thiosinaminum belongs to the same chemical group as Urea. The colorless bitter crystals are soluble in water, alcohol, and ether. Thios. has been used externally and internally in cases of lupus, chronic glandular tumors, and for dissolving scar tissue; and internally for resolving tumors of the uterine appendages.
Thiosinaminum is known for its ability to dissolve scars formed anywhere in the body. Thiosinaminum can work wonders in Urethral Stricture cases where the cicatricial tissue is formed in urethra due to any cause. The resolving power of this natural remedy in scar cases cannot be matched by any other medicine. The scar will get soft followed by complete disappearance with the use of Thiosinaminum.
Apis Mellifica
Stinging pain during urination that is worse when the final drops are passing is a strong indication for this remedy. Discomfort may also involve the bladder. The prostate area is swollen and very sensitive to touch. The person may feel worse from heat and from being in warm rooms, with improvement from being out in open air or from cool bathing.
Causticum
Urine loss when the person coughs or sneezes often indicates a need for this remedy. Once urine has started passing, the person may feel pressure or pulsation extending from the prostate to the bladder. Causticum is also indicated when sexual pleasure during orgasm is absent or diminished.
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