Download Theme №12 cancer of prostate

Theme №12 Cancer of the prostate
I. Actuality of theme
Prostate cancer (CaP) is the most common cancer detected in American men. Approximately 230,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year
(Jemal et al., 2005). Although prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer
death for men, mortality rates have been declining since the mid-1990s. However,
because of reductions in death due to cardiovascular disease and the aging of American men, prostate cancer will continue to be a major health- care concern unless more
effective forms of prevention and treatment are identified (Chan, Jou et al., 2004).
The lifetime risk of a 50-year-old man for latent CaP (detected as an incidental finding at autopsy, not related to the cause of death) is 40%; for clinically apparent CaP,
9.5%; and for death from CaP, 2.9%. Thus, many prostate cancers are indolent and
inconsequential to the patient while others are virulent, and if detected too late or left
untreated, they result in a patient’s death. The probability of CaP developing in a
man under the age of 40 is 1 in 10,000; for men 40–59 it is 1 in 103, and for men 60–
79 it is 1 in 8.
II Purpose of the class
1. To know epidemiology, etiology and pathology of the prostate cancer.
2. To know clinical findings of prostate cancer.
3. To know methods of diagnostic and differential diagnosis of prostate cancer.
4. To know methods of treatment localized cancer of prostate, locally advanced and
metastatic disease.
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