Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among, especially black men.
Emmanuel Ezeh,44, has heard about prostate cancer but thinks it is just another enigmatic name for a serious ailment that has nothing to do with him.
Men, 40 years and above, should at least go for yearly checkup and screening to monitor the growth of prostate cancer. They need to know the early symptoms of the disease so that they can present every case early for treatment, according to health experts.; an international event marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.
“In the last one year, men who died from prostate cancer that I know had similar characteristic features: The symptoms were not detected early; they initially had complaints of low back pain; they are in their 60s, and their disease had rapid progression within three-four years before their deaths”, he explained.
Cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow and divide uncontrollably in the prostate and may eventually spread into other tissues. “Another way is to have a doctor do a digital rectum examination by using the finger to examine the prostate once a year in any black man who is more than 40 years. Once you do that, you are being monitored so that if there are abnormalities in the prostate or you pick an abnormality in the result, it can be treated early. But once it is late, prostate cancer usually has no treatment.
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