New Prostate Cancer Test May Detect Aggressive Tumor
Prostrate cancer is a threat to a lot of men. The majority of prostate cancer is “pussycat” prostate cancer. This type of prostate cancer is mild and would not cause major problems throughout the patient’s life. Another type of prostate cancer referred to as “tigers” cancer. This type of prostate cancer is more aggressive and can even lead to death.
One of the major problem faces by many doctors is working out the type of prostate cancer a patient suffers. According to a recent research by British Journal of Cancer Research, small bubbles of fat that passes through the urine can actually determine if a prostate cancer is something mild or fatal, thus help in determining which type of treatment should be implemented.
Men suffering from pussycat cancers often undergo unnecessary test, medication and treatment which result in certain side effects such as loss of sex drive and impotence. This site effects can be prevented if there is a reliable test to determine whether a tumor is aggressive.
Up until today, medics have used varying levels of protein, including PSA or what is referred to as prostate specific antigen to know more about the cancer. But this technique turns out to be problematic.
According to the researchers, a fatty capsule referred to as exosomes, coming from the tumor, may contain a lot of information about the make up and the genetic of prostate cancer. Various genes can be turned off and on in serious and dormant cases of prostate cancer.
Dr. Jonas Nilsson, an author at the University Medical Centre in Amsterdam said that the medicine world hopes that this would be a new approach in knowing more about prostate cancer. Meanwhile, Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK commented that such technique could help to find new biomarkers that can tell if a tumor would lead to aggressive prostate or not.
It is still a long run to diagnose and treat aggressive prostate cancer at a much earlier stage. One of the most common symptoms of this type of cancer is difficulty in urination, thus it is important to have your condition checked by doctor regularly if you have such symptom.