Did you realize that the growth of human cells is continuous? Well, studies have shown that the cells of the human body interestingly regenerate during a life time. This is so that the body can constantly replace deceased cells with new cells in the same tissues of organs to take over same functions as the dead cells once did. This is the raison d'?tre of body development and longevity.

But deviation may take place in the course of body development to induce cells to start growing rampantly and thus form a mass called tumor, which can be detected as cancerous if found to be malignant. Malignancy refers to when cells overgrowth begins or is seen to head towards invading other tissues, and if unchecked is very likely to spread all over the body and cause death.

Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that distresses the prostate gland of men so that the cells of the prostate start to duplicate without control, and may thus stretch outside the prostate gland onto neighboring organs causing them harm.

There are lots of different kinds of treatments for prostate cancer depending on the extent of the cancer. As with any therapy, early discovery through regular screening can help in treatment.

Digital rectal examination (DRE) or the system of using a gloved finger inserted in the rectum to feel and measure how big the gland has grown, to ascertain the possibility of prostate tumor, used to be the common screening method for monitoring the prostate of men, especially by age of 40, when they are thought to be more at the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Subsequently, as men arrive age 50, it is even mandatory medically that a yearly PSA test should be carried out to help detect early prostate cancer. This method is known to be more effective in diagnosing the minutest sign of cancerous cells expansion in the prostate gland.

However, even a better test for recognizing early prostate cancer is now a mere urine test that enables the detection of the presence of the protein thymosin B15 in the urine. This is very easy to find out, because only cancerous cells are known to make this particular protein that aids the expansion of cancerous cells.

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