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prostate can·cer
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Princeton's WordNet
prostate cancer, prostatic adenocarcinomanoun
cancer of the prostate gland
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Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause pain, difficulty in urinating, problems during sexual intercourse, or erectile dysfunction. Other symptoms can potentially develop during later stages of the disease. Rates of detection of prostate cancers vary widely across the world, with South and East Asia detecting less frequently than in Europe, and especially the United States. Prostate cancer tends to develop in men over the age of fifty. Globally it is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related death in men. Prostate cancer is most common in the developed world with increasing rates in the developing world. However, many men with prostate cancer never have symptoms, undergo no therapy, and eventually die of other unrelated causes. Many factors, including genetics and diet, have been implicated in the development of prostate cancer.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of prostate cancer in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of prostate cancer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of prostate cancer in a Sentence
You're starting to get colonoscopies ; you're starting to get checked for prostate cancer. This is one more thing to add to that list that you really have to watch for.
It also underlines once again the importance of living a healthy lifestyle to help defend against a host of diseases, including prostate cancer.
Ted Turner, A speech to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN:
Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
There's a European study that's been tracking men who've been screened now for 13 years. And it's shown that the benefit increases over time. It sounds small, but for every 780 men who get screened, you prevent one prostate cancer death.
The utility of the PARP inhibitors could be much broader than just patients that have a tumor with the BRCA mutation, that becomes relevant when you start thinking about the drugs' role in other tumor types like prostate cancer and breast cancer where the incidence of new patients each year is much greater than in ovarian cancer.
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