{"id":6233,"date":"2018-10-22T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:07:29","slug":"cancer-awareness-month-prostate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=6233","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Awareness Month: Prostate"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard it said, “If you live long enough, you’ll get prostate cancer<\/em>.” That’s because its onset is at least partially due to increased age, with the average age of diagnosis at 66 years old! (source: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2krh8jL).<\/p>\n

And now that we have a test for it (the PSA), it is detected far more often — even when it is small and still benign (source: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2RbjAcm). In fact, most men diagnosed with this disease do not die from it. This doesn’t mean it’s not a serious disease because it is, only that context is needed when talking about this particular cancer.<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably heard it said, “If you live long enough, you’ll get prostate cancer.” That’s because its onset is at least partially due to increased age, with the average age … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-health-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Prostate.jpg?fit=2975%2C3850&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-1Cx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2500,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2500","url_meta":{"origin":6233,"position":0},"title":"Get some exercise outdoors","author":"Will Clower","date":"September 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey guys, need one more reason to get outside and enjoy being active?This article from Healthfinder.gov shows how far regular exercise can go toward lowering your risk of prostate cancer ... and even if you do eventually develop this disease, exercise is associated with a less aggressive form of it.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2127,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2127","url_meta":{"origin":6233,"position":1},"title":"Do multi-vitamins stop cancer, heart attacks? 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