When it comes about health, we can’t compromise. We want to go into a country where we can have the best treatment in affordable cost. 

It’s often challenging to choose a place where we can go for the treatment. We need to consider many factors before choosing the country like the cost of the treatment, availability of facilities, transportation conditions, how much safe the country is, technologies used for the treatment, conditions of the hospitals and many more. 

Currently India has world’s top most hospitals with advanced technologies. These hospitals provide the best treatment for prostate cancer. For these reasons why most people choose prostate cancer treatment in India. 

So if you are seeking for the treatment of prostate cancer, then India should be on the top. 

Now let’s have a look about prostate cancer, it’s causes, symptoms, and how it can be cured. 

What is prostate cancer? 

As the name suggests, prostate cancer is cancer that occurs in the prostate. The prostate is a small walnut-shaped gland which is a part of men’s reproductive system that produces the seminal fluid that nourishes and transports sperm.

Prostate cancer occurs, when abnormal cells form and grow in the prostate gland. 

Most of the prostate cancers grow slowly and confined to the prostate gland, where they may not cause serious harm. But there are some types of prostate cancer grow slowly and may need minimal or even no treatment, other types are aggressive and can spread quickly. 

Symptoms of the prostate cancer

At the early stages, prostate cancer often has no symptoms which make it very difficult to detect. 

Some common symptoms of prostate cancer may include:

• Pain in the lower pelvic
• Having frequent urinating
• Trouble during urination like pain, burning or weak urine flow 
• Painful ejaculation
• Blood with urine
• Weight lose
• Bone pain
• Pain in lower back and hips

Causes of the prostate cancer

Although the cause of prostate cancer is unknown, but researchers have found many reasons why risk of prostate cancer can may increase. 

Age: As men get older, their risk of getting a prostate cancer increase. Disorder to the cells DNA is more likely for men over age 55

Family: Men having prostate cancer of their grandfather, father or brother have a higher risk of getting the prostate cancer. Having breast and ovarian cancer also raises men’s risk of prostate cancer. 

Weight: Studies have shown that, being over weight in 50s and later increase the risk of getting a prostate cancer. 

Ethnicity: African American men have a very high chance of getting prostate cancer. One in six African American men will be diagnosed with the disease. 

Treatment of prostate cancer

Treatment of prostate cancer depends on stage of the cancer. If it is small and localise then treatment will be different from that if it is spread throughout the body. 

The most common treatments are of the following:

Surgery: This procedure is used when cancer has not spread.Here tumor and some surrounding healthy tissues are removed during an operation. For cancer which has not spread beyond the prostate, these procedures are often used. 

Radiation therapy: In this treatment procedure, high energy radiation beams to kill the cancer cells in the cervix. It is used in case of localised cancer. 

Hormonal treatment: Here reducing or blocking circulating levels of androgens (male sex hormones) is hormones can temporarily inhibit the growth of prostate cancer.

Chemotherapy: Here some kinds of drugs are injected through veins or taken by mouth to kill cancer cells. It enters into blood and is effective for killing cells anywhere in our body. 

Targeted therapy: In this process of the treatment, cancer’s specific genes,  protein or the tissues that contribute to the growth and survival of the cancer, is targeted. This treatment blocks the growth and spread of the cancer and limits the damaging of the healthy cells. 

Immunotherapy: It uses the natural ability of our body to defend.