Medications like Prescore and Hytrin may help alleviate these problems without surgery. However, any prostate problem is rare in a man younger than 50 years old. The prostate is made up of many individual cells, which work together in harmony. Normally these cells divide quickly to make new cells, and grow the prostate, in womb life, early childhood, and through male puberty. In adulthood, the cells only divide to replace those lost to injury, disease or old age.
Prostate cancer starts in a single cell which has become abnormal.
This cells produces millions, and eventually billions, of copies of itself. These clones fail to function as normal prostate tissue, but instead divert resources from healthy cells to fuel their own growth. This is what makes cancer so dangerous. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men , in the U.S.A, with 317,000 new cases in 1996 . The average patient is 65 years old at time of detection.