Care and Advice
Prostate Cancer
What and where is the prostate?
The prostate is a gland found only in men that sits just below the bladder. It is about the size of a walnut. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder out through the penis. The prostate surrounds the urethra.
Fluid produced by the prostate forms part of the semen when you ejaculate.
What is cancer?
Your body is made up of millions of cells which continuously renew themselves to replace old or damaged tissue. When the renewal process gets out of control whereby more cells grow than die they begin to form growths or tumours.
These tumours can either be benign (non cancerous) or malignant which are cancerous and can invade and damage heathy tissue.
Sometimes cancer cells can break away from the original site and settle in other parts of the body causing further damage. When this happens the cancers that have spread are called 'metastases', 'mets' or 'secondaries'.
