Prostate cancer is the most common occurring cancer in men worldwide, and thus is an incredibly serious issue. Prostate cancer is a cancer that occurs in the prostate gland, which is part of the male reproductive system. The prostate gland is the size of a large walnut, and it is located just below the bladder and next to the urethra.

Prostate cancer starts in the glandular tissue of the prostate gland, and although the exact cause of this cancer is unknown, what is known is that the cancer most often occurs in men over the age of fifty, with married men for some reason being at much higher risk than single men.

Prostate Cancer Treatments

Although as of yet there is no cure for prostate cancer, there are various prostate cancer treatments that are available to help you. One of the most common prostate cancer treatments is surgery, and surgical removal of the prostate, also known as radical prostatectomy, is available to many men who are suffering from localized prostate cancer.

This surgery involves the removal of the prostate and as well the surrounding tissues, a specified portion of the urethra, and the seminal vesicles. During the surgery when the prostate is being removed, the surgeon will attempt to save the nerves that are surrounding the prostate, those which are responsible for erections. This however is not guaranteed.

External beam radiation is another of the more common prostate cancer treatments, and it is one that is more readily available, and in which beams of high-energy radiation are directed from outside the body towards a target inside of the body. Hormone therapy is yet another of the most popular prostate cancer treatments, and is actually one of the oldest means of treating prostate cancer as well.

Hormone therapy is also known as androgen deprivation therapy, and the point or goal of it is to reduce levels of the male hormones, or androgens, in the body, as these can actually be responsible for helping the disease to spread. Therefore, lowering the levels of these androgens will often make the prostate cancer shrink or at least grow more slowly.

Hormone therapy is typically used in the following situations: if your prostate cancer remains or comes back after treatment with surgery or radiation therapy, as an addition to radiation therapy as initial treatment if you are at high risk for cancer recurrence, before surgery or radiation to try and shrink the cancer to make other treatments more effective, and if you are not able to have surgery or radiation treatments.

The particular type of treatment that you should use for your prostate cancer will be decided by your doctor, and you should never attempt getting involved with any method of treatment without referral from your physician first.

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These are pretty harsh words, but well deserved. I need to standup and say my peace that has caused grief and war within my heart. This will be my long awaited impact statement to a cowardly criminal. This will give me justice to my soul. I hope it does yours, as well.

Mr. Cancer, I doubt if you know me. You seldom know your victims or your victim’s survivors. You’re known to cut and run. I am a survivor of a victim you have taken. You took my wife. You ruined my happiness. You robbed my life. I despise you with every emotion and any words I can express.

Mr. Cancer, you have taken millions of lives without explanation or a care. I ask you why. You have invented a disease that spreads death and breaks hearts. But you don’t care. You take one life after the other, as you rob their survivor’s hopes. You are the main link on your chain of hate and misery.

Mr. Cancer, you attack for no reason. You love to invade cells and make them weak. Sometimes you crawl into blood and cause pain. Other times, you pierce the brain and cause severe damage, and eventually–death. If that’s not to your satisfaction, you attack organs and cause them to wither and die.

Mr. Cancer , it’s obvious you have no shame. You are as much of a demon
as your maker–the devil. You are a serial killer. You attack one after the other. You have no preference. You enter the body invisibly, and sometimes you never leave. Sometimes you hide for awhile, then you return with a vengeance. You erase all hope to your victims and their families. You provoke intense chaos. You thrive on the defenseless.

Mr. Cancer, you are the creator of disdain. It’s best to confront you, the mother of all enemies, like a convict in a courtroom, where your accusers are present. Your victims scold you, the killer without conscience. Many statements are read by your victims, but you turn a deaf ear, then silence becomes the enemy. Words are hard to find.

Mr. Cancer, you have a large family of rats. Like terrorists, they multiply and attack. You are like red fire ants on an atomic anthill. You are busy planning. Who next will your victim be?

Mr. Cancer, the day is getting near, when you will be going to hell and burn there forever. Before long, you will never exist. The fire of hell will put you out. People will begin to see new life. Like many diseases before, a cure will rise.

Mr. Cancer, your family of insurgents will cease and surrender. You will rot and decay, like the Taliban and Al-Qaida, in future days to come. Your stinger of blood-thirsty networks, will drop dead in a sea of avalanches.

Mr. Cancer, you’re dead, now go to hell.

Earl D. Erickson, loves to write inspirational stories of hope. He was broken-hearted and his spirit nearly died, when his wife, Bobbie, passed away from cancer. He writes how he feels. And
by writing, he feels relieved of depression. He hopes his readers feel the same.

Mr. Erickson, loves to read and write, listen to music and watch videos and movies to pass the time. He enjoys his hobby of collecting music and he is constantly researching and developing his extensive music library.

Mr. Erickson, is involved in writing articles for Ezine Articles. His articles can be read by going to his websites. He is also writing a book, entitled, Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, a story of his life struggles with his addiction to alcohol and drugs, depression, grief and suicide. He hopes to finish his book next year.

Mr. Erickson, has five websites. Two of them are: BobbiesMountain.com BobbiesMountain.com and
ComfortandLoss.com ComfortandLoss.com

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Cancer is only a physical symptom of underlying emotional stress on the body and the body’s cells. But how does emotional stress cause cancer in the body? And why does emotional stress only cause cancer in some people, while not in others?

For the majority of people, coping with stress and highly stressful or traumatic events or conflicts is dealt with, with relative ease. Although those in this larger group feel the devastating effects of stress, stressful events, trauma, and conflicts, including grief and loss – stressful events are seen as part of life’s challenges, life’s ups and downs, and they are for they most part anticipated and not completely unexpected. These people are able to move on with their lives quickly afterwards.

Those susceptible to cancer, are highly vulnerable to life’s stresses and trauma, and feel unable to cope when life throws a curve-ball their way. These people are perfectionists and live in fear of conflict, stress, trauma and loss and are deeply frightened of negative events “happening” to them. And when faced with a highly stressful or traumatic event they have not anticipated, which inevitably happens during their life, react adversely and are unable to cope.

They experience Inescapable Shock and remain deeply affected by the experience. They have difficulty in expressing their inner grief, their inner pain, their inner anger or resentment, and genuinely feel there is no way out of the pain they are feeling inside. And because their mind cannot fathom what has happened, and remains in a state of disbelief or denial, these inner painful feelings are continually perpetuated, shooting up stress hormone levels, lowering melatonin and adrenaline levels, causing a slow breakdown of the emotional reflex centre in the brain, and creating the beginning of cancer progression in the body.

When faced with a major trauma, the cancer personality feels trapped and unable to escape from the memory of the traumatic experience and the painful feelings of the experience. Stress hormone cortisol levels skyrocket and remain at high levels, directly suppressing the immune system, whose job it is to destroy cancer cells that exist in every human being. High stress levels generally means a person cannot sleep well, and cannot produce enough Melatonin during deep sleep. Melatonin is responsible for inhibiting cancer cell growth. This means cancer cells are now free to multiply. Adrenaline levels also skyrocket initially, but are then drained and depleted over time. This is especially bad news for the cancer personality.

Adrenaline is responsible for transporting sugar away from cells. And when there is too much sugar in cells of the body, the body becomes acidic. This means normal body cells cannot breathe properly because of low oxygen. Cancer cells thrive in a low oxygen state, as demonstrated by Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg. Cancer cells also thrive on sugar to keep them alive. Put simply, too much internal stress causes a depletion of adrenalin, leads to too much sugar in the body, resulting in the perfect environment for cancer cells to thrive in the body.

For the cancer personality, the news of being diagnosed with cancer and the fear and uncertainty of death represents another Inescapable Shock, creating another spike in stress hormone cortisol levels, and a further drop in melatonin and adrenalin levels. There is also a further breakdown of the emotional reflex centre in the brain that causes cells in the corresponding organ to slowly breakdown and become cancerous.

Learned helplessness is a key aspect of the cancer personality when facing a perceived inescapable shock, and is a strong developmental factor of cancer. Researcher Madelon Visintainer took three groups of rats, one receiving mild escapable shock, another group receiving mild in-escapable shock, and the third no shock at all. She then implanted each rat with cancer cells that would normally result in 50% of the rats developing a tumour. Her results were astonishing.

Within a month, 50% of the rats not shocked at all had rejected the tumour; this was the normal ratio. As for the rats that mastered shock by pressing a bar to turn it off, 70% had rejected the tumour. But only 27% of the helpless rats, the rats that had experienced in-escapable shock, rejected the tumour. This study demonstrates those who feel there is no way out of their shock / loss are less likely to be able to reject tumours forming within their body, due to high levels of stress weakening the immune system. [Seligman, 1998, p.170]

Cancer occurs at the cellular level. And there are a number of factors that create stress on the body’s cells, causing them to become (1) depleted of adrenaline, (2) high in sugar and (3) low in oxygen, where they are more prone to mutate and become cancerous. The higher the sugar content of the cell caused by a depletion of adrenaline, and the lower the oxygen content, the greater the likelihood of normal cells mutating and becoming cancerous.

There are a number of factors that contribute to a normal cell becoming depleted of adrenaline, high in sugar and low in oxygen. Physiological stresses include (and are not limited to): Poor nutrition, Chemicals, Toxins, EMF Radiation, Parasites, Liver / Colon / Kidney disease, Lack of Exercise, etc. Psychological stresses include (and are not limited to): Inescapable Shock, Repressed Feelings, Depression, Isolation, Poor Sleep, Emotional Trauma, External Conflict, etc.

In the vast majority of those with cancer, there exists both a combination of psychological as well as physiological stresses that have contributed to the body’s cells becoming depleted of adrenaline, high in sugar and low in oxygen, causing them to mutate and become cancerous.

For further information on Stress & Cancer, the Cancer Personality and the Cancer Chain of Events, go to alternative-cancer-care.com/The_Cancer_Personality.html alternative-cancer-care.com/The_Cancer_Personality.html
GLEN RUSSELL, CERT.HYP.HYPCA.CNSL

Glen Russell is a certified counsellor and hypnotherapist and graduated from the Alpha Hypnosis Training School having studied a Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy & Neural Linguistic Programming.

It was during this time that Glen decided to specialize in working with cancer patients. Glen embarked on an ambitious training regime further to his training at Alpha Hypnosis Training School to ready himself for the challenge of working with cancer patients in the specialized field of ‘hypnosis for cancer’. After reading Stephen J Parkhill’s internationally acclaimed book “Answer Cancer: The Healing of a Nation”, Glen undertook training with Stephen to learn the art of healing illnesses created by the mind using hypnotherapy as a tool to access deep core emotions.

Having completed his training with Stephen, Glen undertook further training with the prestigious Omni Hypnosis Training Center in DeLand, Florida and after completing his final examination, received certification as a ‘Hypnosis for Cancer Specialist’.

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The term biopsy means a view of life and means from the Greek “bio” meaning life, and “-psy” meaning vision. A biopsy is literally a look at living tissue, and is a test used to diagnose cancer. Any tissue or organ in the body can be biopsied, and there are many techniques that are used. Some of these draw in surgery, whereas others will not even draw in an anesthetic. In each method, a sample of tissue is cut out from the body and studied for cancer markers, cancer cells, or unusual cell division. Each cancer has its own modes of diagnosis, but the different types of biopsies can be classified. Naturally, you should go to a reputed medical clinic to get this done. You can look up an online health directory to get information.

1) Excisional biopsy. This is a surgical removal of the feared tumor growth. In this case, either an organ or lump is excised, or cut out of the body. Excisional biopsies are used for a variety of cancer diagnoses and for different reasons in each. In osteosarcoma they are used because of the growth rate of feared tumors. Surgery will always be the first option of biopsy in bone cancers. In lymphoma, tumors can only be examined as whole pieces so as to get an accurate diagnosis. Breast cancer is another cancer where some surgeons prefer surgery. This will make certain any cancer diagnosis with the most accuracy.

2) Incisional Biopsy. Here only a section of the lump is removed through surgery. This type is generally used for feared soft tissue cancers.

3) Endoscopic Biopsy. This is the most widespread form of biopsy and is performed through a fibreoptic endoscope that is introduced into the organ of disruption. The doctor looking through the endoscope can view directly any abnormal sections and cut or pinch pieces of tissue with forceps. A thoroscopy for endoscopic biopsy under general anesthesia will be used for mesothelioma, a cancer of internal organ lining. The reason for this is there is simply no other modes to obtain a tissue sample. Meshothelioma is also very tough to diagnose through other means, and so excisional biopsy is the best course for an accurate diagnosis.

4) Fine needle aspiration is the most popular form of contemporary cancer biopsy. Here a needle will be introduced into the lump and a large number of cell tissue will be drawn through a syringe. These cells will then be stained and studied by a pathologist. In this case, a diagnosis is reached instantly. This kind of biopsy can even be conducted on inaccessible organs such as the pancreas or lungs with ultrasound guided techniques. This is the preferred choice as avoiding surgery is almost always first on the wish list of the physician.

There are other forms of biopsies, but these categories are the most widespread and cover most of the major cancerous diseases. If a cancer is feared, a patient may undergo more than one of these tests through the course of their treatment, depending on how aggressive the physician feels it is.

Specialist medical clinics are best prepared to deal with this. If you want to learn more, read web articles on the subject. These are easily accessible in a health directory.

Ajeet Khurana is an author, futurist, teacher… If you liked this article, also visit: cancerbiopsies.com/lung-cancer/lung-cancer.htm Mesothelioma, medicalclinics.in/ Clinics and l4j.com Health Directory.

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