Prognosis After Treatment Helps In Prostate Cancer Survival

By Laura Kelsey

Increase in the prostate cancer survival rate is due to the constant research going on for finding preventive measures and cures for this common disease amongst ageing males. However, there are other methods, which can increase the life span of a patient. These methods refer to prognosis and change in the lifestyle by changing food habits and inculcating exercises in everyday routine.

The use of vaccine has proved effective in restricting the growth of tumor after treatment, which helps in prolonging the prostate cancer survival period. Moreover, vaccines help in breaking down the tumor, which eliminates the chances of further recurrence of the disease. However, the longevity of life after the disease also depends on other factors like age and family history.

Several other factors also affect the patient's period of longevity after detection and treatment of the disease. These factors are the stage of the disease during the diagnosis, eating habits, obesity level, and ethnicity. Observation has shown that the life span of a patient whose cancerous growth has not penetrated the beyond the prostate has greater chance of survival after treatment.

Therefore, if you want to increase your life span after contacting the disease and undergoing treatment, you have to bring some changes in your lifestyle. You have to change your eating habits and impose few restrictions as advised by your doctor. Moreover, you have to maintain your regular schedule of check ups to restrict the recurrence of the disease.

However, not all these positive effects sometimes work with many of the patients who develop depression due to the effect of this disease on their sexual efficiency. The patient not only suffers from the pain and problems related to the disease but also bear the pangs of prostate cancer impotence, which sets in after the treatment of the disease.

Prostate cancer impotence depends on the type of treatment adopted for treating the disease. Observation shows that surgery and removal of prostate glands leads to permanent erectile dysfunction. However, it is not an established fact as nowadays various methods of surgery are available, which helps in removing the affected parts without harming the nerves that carry the blood to the penis.

Besides surgery, radiation therapy and hormonal therapy can also cause prostate cancer impotence. However, the level of erectile dysfunction is higher in radiation therapy and this problem can last for a longer time in this mode of treatment, but in hormonal therapy, the period of erectile dysfunction is lesser.

However, if you are a patient or any member in your family is suffering from this disease should not lose hope. If you follow all the restrictions after the treatment and bring necessary changes in your lifestyle, you can easily curb the recurrence of the disease. Another factor, which helps in increasing prostate cancer survival, is the slow growth rate of the diseased cells. - 31370

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