WHY DO MEN GET SWELLING AND CANCER OF THE PROSTATE GLAND?
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD. April 9, 2004 NewsWithViews.com What Causes Benign Prostatic Hypertophy BPH? This is invariably a disease of men over the age of 50. The symptoms produced by an enlarging prostate gland are occasionally surprisingly few, even in very large glands. Usually there is some decrease in the force of the urinary stream, difficulty initiating urination, and incomplete bladder emptying. The man who is not emptying his bladder completely will urinate and then be able to urinate a considerable amount of urine again in 15 or 20 minutes. In the later stages, urine dribbles out instead of flowing and finally straining to empty the bladder fails to accomplish the passage of any urine (urinary retention which requires catheter drainage of the bladder). The current concept accepted by many physicians is that testosterone is related to prostate gland enlargement (BPH). However, young males with soaring levels of testosterone never develop prostate enlargement and elderly mal
