Al-Marsad Newspaper: Dr. Khaled Al-Othman, consultant in urology and robotic prostate surgery, revealed the causes of prostate cancer and treatment methods.
cancer prostate
He said during an interview with the “mbc” channel: “Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the world, and the incidence of this disease in the Arab world is much lower than the Western world.
Not awareness
He continued, there is an absence of early screening and awareness programs that are not sufficient for men in our society to conduct early prostate cancer screening.
He continued: The issue has become more important in recent years as prostate cancer affects men in the 1950s and 1960s, adding that the Kingdom has seen a dramatic improvement in healthcare, which has led to an improvement in expectation of life, and this indirectly led to an increase in the rate of cases discovered.
And he continued, most cases of cancers have symptoms similar to the symptoms that accompany benign tumors and are widespread, and if a person starts to feel symptoms, they are in an advanced stage.
Medical examination soon
He added, it is important for men to have a periodic examination after the age of fifty or 45, and the examination is a blood test, which is an indicator reflecting the activity of the prostate gland, indicating that this disease is silent and is discovered in its last stages.
Reasons wound and knock treatment
He explained that studies have concluded that the most common causes of prostate cancer are hereditary factors and foods rich in fatty substances, such as fast food and others.
Consultant in surgery, urology and robotic prostate surgery, Dr. Khaled Al-Othman explains:
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