Don't suffer in silence

Prostate Health Don't Suffer in Silence

The chances are that if you reached here you are concerned about prostate health or you are anxious that prostate cancer could be a possibility.

Worldwide, around 914,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. More than two out of three cases are diagnosed in the more developed regions.

In the USA an estimated 2,000,000 are living with prostate cancer while there will be an estimated 217,000 new cases diagnose in 2010.

In the UK each year around 38,000 are diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

EU statistics for the year 2008 show that 340,000 were diagnosed as having prostate cancer.   (Cancer research UK.)

Don’t be a statistic

Perhaps if you are not already anxious enough, then these statistics have made you more anxious. This is not the purpose of this article. Its purpose is to spring you into action to be proactive, to do something positive for you and your health.

A lot of men suffer a lot of anguish in silence. They tend not to talk to their partner or friends about their prostate health. Why? Perhaps its embarrassment or fear or perhaps it’s not macho or perhaps worst still it’s ostrich syndrome.

Well whatever about sticking your head in the sand and hoping that it will go away the facts are all men have a prostate gland and they have a responsibility to themselves to keep it healthy. The worst possible thing to do is NOTHING.

Don’t suffer in silence there’s lots of help out there. Speak with your GP, search forums on the web, inform yourself, don’t be foolish, remember a burden shared is a burden halved.

Do something positive today. Visit your GP and have a PSA blood test. It’s you first step, chances are you have a healthy prostate and there is no need to worry, if it is enlarged then it is treatable. If there’s cancer cells present then if diagnosed early this cancer is one of the most successfully treated cancers.

Be proactive, be health conscious. It’s your life  it’s your health , love it and live it to the full.