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Diagnosis
If a person has symptoms the doctor performs the following tests.

Digital rectal exam. This study is to evaluate the prostate by introducing the finger into the rectum and the doctor assesses the condition of the gland through the rectal wall.

Blood tests Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA or APE). Physicians determine the level of this antigen, prostate cancer when there are increased levels observed, however, increased antigen levels in this cancer does not always determine, but the presence of other abnormalities in the prostate.

Prostate biopsy. The doctor takes a small piece of the prostate using a needle for examination under a microscope and identifying the characteristics of the cells.

Computed tomography, and magnetic resonance images of bones. Help determine the extent of this cancer. Some studies injects a small amount of a radioactive substance into a vein.

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The prostate is a gland in men that is located below the bladder and produces the fluid part of semen (containing sperm). This cancer is more common in men older than 50 years. Prostate cancer is a tumor due to abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells that have the ability to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).

Causes
I really do not know what causes this cancer, but there are certain factors that favor its appearance:
1. The risk of prostate cancer increases with age, and it is rare to see in younger people
2. People who have close relatives who have had this type of cancer
3. History of other cancers in the family: breast cancer in women under 40 years
4. Genetic load
5. Race: African Americans have higher risk for this disease
6. Diet with high fat intake.

Signs and symptoms of prostate cancer
This cancer usually shows no symptoms, particularly in the elderly, because some tumors are slow growing, but there are tumors that grow rapidly and cause serious problems:

Alterations to urinate are the most common signs, because the cap to the prostate urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside, this produces an intermittent flow, residual urine, increased frequency of urination, more times to urinate at night, feeling that the bladder does not empty completely, pain and bleeding in the urine.

HOW IS GIVEN

The chemotherapeutic agents can be administered orally (in pill form, capsule or solution drinkable), but not always the digestive system can absorb, so it may also be brought intravenous or intramuscular injections. The latter is the most common, doctors may do so using a syringe into a vein in the hand or arm, through which drugs are introduced into the patient’s body. Alternatively, the catheter, a flexible tube that is placed in a larger vein, which is maintained for the duration of treatment. Sometimes the catheter is attached to a device, a small hard plastic or metal that is placed under the skin and prevents unnecessary jabs. To control the rate of entry of the drug in the body can also be used an infusion pump, which has a storage area for drugs.

When the drug is administered intramuscularly, the effects of chemotherapy tend to last longer because the muscle tissue absorption is somewhat slower. Finally, in some cases, when the disease has spread to the spinal cord or brain, medications must be administered directly into the spinal fluid for which we must resort to intrathecal method, which involves introducing chemotherapy directly into the space intraspinal.

They are the only ways you can also use a cream or lotion directly onto the skin, intra-arterial, directly inside the tumor …

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Paraxial (called “dysphasia” if mild) is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to carry out skilled movements and gestures, despite having the desire and physical ability to do them. Paraxial is the result of dysfunction of the cerebral hemispheres, especially the parietal lobe and may arise from many diseases or injury cerebral.Existen several kinds of paraxial that may occur alone or accompanied.

The most common is the or facial or dental, which shows the inability to make facial movements at will, and licking his lips, whistling, coughing or wink. Other types of paraxial include limbocinética paraxial (inability to make fine and precise movements with an arm or leg), idiomatic paraxial (inability to perform the proper movement in response to a verbal command), ideational paraxial (inability to coordinate activities with multiple, sequential movements, such as dressing, eating and bathing), the verbal paraxial (difficulty coordinating mouth movements and speech), the constructive paraxial (inability to copy, draw or construct simple figures) and paraxial coulometer (difficulty moving the eyes at will). Paraxial may be accompanied by a language disorder called aphasia. Corticobasal ganglion degeneration is a disease that causes a variety of types of paraxial, especially in older adults.