Monday, August 18, 2008

Prostate Cancer Research

By Laura Burns

It is well known now that throughout the world, men and women have different medical issues. When you think of cancer in women, for example, you automatically think of breast cancer. It may not be as common as in women but breast cancer is found in men as well.

When we consider cancer in men it invariably brings up prostrate cancer. Unfortunately it has also become a central topic when groups of men get together as more and more men are contracting it.

To tell the truth, what we all really want to know and understand is how to prevent it from occurring and this means oodles of prostate cancer research.

If the truth be known, cancer does worry me. I don't doubt that like me, most men haven't got it on their minds all day long. However, it does enter my mind every time I see something addressing the illness. When you watch the television, you can't escape from it with a number of adverts relating to prostate and breast cancer every hour.

Both will require far more investigation and examination before a cure can be found. As health problems go, cancer is probably the most pervasive in the world and a cure to this dreadful disease cannot come too soon.

It's fair to say that even if you live healthily you cannot say for certain that at some point you won't get it. HIV although an awful disease, is, if precautions are taken, preventable unlike cancer and it is worrying when people compare the two.

You can take precautions against many other conditions and that includes HIV, but this doesn't happen with cancer. Other than some poor individuals that have contracted HIV through no fault of their own, you are not generally at risk from it.

Reading articles and reports carried out on prostrate cancer research is informative and let's you exactly how far we are away from finding a cure. New treatments and breakthroughs are in the public domain so you do not have to be ignorant on any subject.

One day, articles like this will be redundant because all that breast and prostate cancer research will have found a cure.

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