While prostate cancer once symptoms, may have spread to other organs, sometimes can be detected even when no symptoms.
The diagnosis of prostate cancer can only be confirmed with a biopsy specialist, conducted by a urologist who is the doctor responsible for diseases related to sexual and urinary organs, both men and women.
The biopsy involves taking a piece of tissue with a small needle, and can be carried out in the consultation is then submitted to a pathologist who is a specialist who studies the microscopic tissues to see if there is such a disease, which will review all cells for cancer cells.
This cancer is characterized by stage and grade. The degree is used to describe how much it resembles a tumor of the prostate tissue, based on the appearance of the tumor, and through a system called the Gleason score is used 2 to 10, there is another system using G1 to G4 , is grades 1 through 4, but in both cases the higher the score, the higher the commitment and the greater the tumor the patient has.
The stages of prostate cancer, like any other concern the degree of cancer spread, is located in one place, or to spread, to other parts of the prostate gland.
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