Getting to Know Your Prostate and Your Diagnosis
Where the prostate sits, how it makes semen, how testosterone supports cancer growth, why early cancer causes no symptoms, how enlargement differs from cancer, what PSA measures, why PSA alone cannot diagnose cancer, and what rectal examinations assess.
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Basic Anatomy
Practice this subtopicThe prostate, seminal vesicles, and semen
Practice this subtopicTestosterone and the prostate
Practice this subtopicWhy prostate cancer often causes no symptoms
Practice this subtopicEnlarged prostate, inflammation, and prostate cancer
Practice this subtopicThe purpose of a digital rectal examination
Practice this subtopicSlow-growing and faster-growing prostate cancers
Practice this subtopicProstate anatomy and function
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PSA and rectal examinations
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Cancer, enlargement, and symptoms
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