Male Infertility

Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, after skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men after lung cancer.

The prostate is a male sex gland. This is a small gland (the size of walnuts) and used for the production of semen, which is part of the semen or sperm. It is located above the rectum and below the bladder. The prostate surrounds the urethra, the tube carrying urine from the bladder to the penis as a sort of “floating” at the point where the urethra connects the bladder. Therefore, when the prostate grows, there is difficulty with urination or sex.

Prostate cancer is most common in older men. The prostate continues to grow during most of human life, so it is often the case of 60-year dangerous condition called prostatic hypertrophy prostate “enlarged” or benign (BPH), more common than prostate cancer. Many signs and symptoms of BPH are the same as prostate cancer.

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