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Prostate cancer is a very common malignant tumor that usually appears after age 40. One in 10 patients may develop prostate cancer and previously thought that 3 of every 100 could die for that cause but this had changed as they improve diagnostic techniques. Prostate cancer. after skin cancer is the most common.

Prostate cancer is the development of undifferentiated cells (malignant) inside the prostate, most frequently detected in the posterior region near the rectum but can be located anywhere in the prostate, and even beyond (metastasis), as in bone and lymph nodes.

The manifestations of prostate cancer are more evident as the cancer advances, and in its early stages is totally painless.

There are many factors that increase or reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer and key appear by following this link.

It is a malignant tumor that develops in the prostate gland. It consists of an uncontrolled growth of prostate cells. This means, among other things, that the prostate, because of its location, press on the bladder and urethra by preventing the normal urine output.

Most prostate cancers grow very slowly, although some do it quickly, they can even spread.

The prostate is a glandular organ, the size of a walnut, found in men and located around the bladder neck and part of the urethra, in front of the rectum. Secretes fluid, white and viscous, which is mixed with sperm at the time of ejaculation.

There are lymph vessels surrounding the prostate and that lead to pelvic lymph nodes.

When a prostate cancer, there is the possibility that cancer cells spreading through lymphatic vessels and affect the lymph and from there to anywhere on the body.