Low-risk prostate cancer now can be treated aggressively. Even, the people especially men can do the diagnosis and treatment that they want. But, unfortunately, the aggressive treatment can increase the risk of serious side effects. According to US researchers, there were more than 40 percent of men who fell under the recent standard for getting a biopsy have their prostates removed surgically, and a third have radiation therapy. It was because the recent efforts to lower the threshold of what is thought an abnormal prostate cancer screening analysis would add significantly to the number of men who are overtreated for cancers that might never harm them. Yu-Hsuan Shao, one of the researchers of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick and colleagues stated that great enhancement in survival has been attributed to early detection and treatment. Beside it, a US study also added that regular prostate screening has resulted in more than 1 million American men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them.
We can do screen the prostate cancer by using a blood test that measures blood concentrations of prostate-specific antigen or PSA, a protein made in the prostate that becomes elevated men with prostate cancer. On the other word, we can do it by using our PSA. If our PSA reading is 4 nanograms of PSA per milliter of blood, we are normal. With PSA values of 4 nanograms per milliliter of blood or lower, there are 44 percent prostates uninvolved, and there are 33 percent radiation treatment occurred. It is the recent threshold for getting a biopsy.
Like people worldwide know that prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer, killing around 254,000 men a year around the world. Beside it, overdiagnosis and overtreat of low-risk prostate cancer can lead to treatments such as surgery, radiation or hormone therapy that can cause serious side effects such as impotence and incontinence.