Chronic Prostatitis . . Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) . . Cancer Of The Prostate.
August 8th It's interesting the way things happen almost in unison. They say "trouble comes in threes". I've recently been giving a young man on-line medical advice concerning a possible "prostate situation" - as he called it - that he may be suffering from. Then, along came two more prostatic disease situations encountered today. The first was this forty-something year old man. He suffered a low-grade, nagging pain in his perinium - the area that is between the anus and the scrotum. There was associated pains occassioned in both testes, with straining, before he is able to pass urine and even at that, the urinary stream is poor and it breaks and dribbles. All these had been on now for several months. I concluded that he may have Chronic Prostatitis. Another likely diagnosis of course is a Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) which simply put, is a progressive enlargening of the prostate gland which happens not to be cancerous, hence, we say it is benign. I p...