Prostate Cancer Screening

When buying items or even the food we eat, we carefully check the materials or the quality of the product if it would pass our standards. Screening in an integral part of our lives, whether you are a small time business or a huge corporation, everything is checked thoroughly from equipments, materials and most of all the people who are applying for any company position. With that said, even in disease prevention there are several screening procedures in checking on whether you are infected or not especially if it is a disease that could be fatal. Prostate cancer screening is done on men who feel they are likely to have the disease.

There are two types of prostate cancer screening. The first type is where blood is taken from the man and tested for chemical compounds since concentration of the molecular compound of a blood can detect if one has cancer or not. Another test is called the digital rectal examination where one is examined through the anus to check the prostate gland of the man. Usually these are not anymore given to males above sixty five years old because the life span of the old man will no longer be affected by the cancer since usually malignant cancer cells takes time to expand and replicate; eventually that the man may die even before this happens.

Prostate cancer screening maybe one of the most important part of a man’s life. Just like any man who carefully checks a car he would eventually buy, one’s body should be screened carefully for any life threatening disease.