Ordinarily prostate cancer is a disease of the prostate gland. But this definition may not be deep enough to really inform us on what prostate cancer has come both to imply and to means. Let’s first look at the animal called prostate where the cancerous cell grows, so as to define its name. This will help us a lot in grasping the full meaning and implication of prostate cancer.
The prostate is defined as the compound tubuloalveolar exocrine gland of the male reproductive organ, with the same organ in female reproductive organ identified as paraurethral gland. By its functional characteristics the prostate stores and secretes a whitish or milky alkaline fluid that forms the large part of the total semen volume, followed by the vesicle fluid and the male spermatozoa in the male reproductive organ. The prostate, during intercourse releases the whitish or milky alkaline into the semen as it travels through the virginal tract to reduce the high acidic level of the tract, so as to prolong the life of the sperm till fertilization. This function goes a long way to keep the spermatozoa from the prostatic fluid longer and with more guaranteed better motility than the ones from the seminal vesicular fluid. So the prostate plays a very important role in the preservation of the male reproductive spermatozoa.
Some special features of the prostate are some smooth muscles that are at work in the expulsion of the semen during ejaculation. However, the features and the fluid contents of the prostate may vary with species based on anatomic physiological and chemical factors and also depends on male hormone like androgens to function effectively.
I believe that with this little account of the very nature and functional characteristics of the prostate, it will be very easy for us to understand the meaning and implication of prostate cancer as a malignant disorder in the male reproductive system or even the female reproductive system, in a case where the paraurethreal gland is specifically defined a a prostatic organ.
By way of technical definition, prostate cancer is a fornm of cancer that develops within the internal walls of the male prostate gland which situates within the male reproductive system . It is a malignant tumor cell that disrupts the normal cell and tissue formation and natural arrangement in the prostate. Prostate cancerous carcinoma cell builds up from a spot in the prostate and spreads (metastasize) from the prostate to other sensitive and vital organs of the body within the male reproductive region. These other body organs affected by prostate cancer during the spreading interval include the bones within the reproductive organ radius and the lymph nodes.
Severe type of spasmodic pain, difficulty and pains during urination, complications and problems during sexual intercourse and erectile dysfunction are the possible and regular symptoms of prostate cancer, especially at its advanced stage, although other more disturbing symptoms do develop during the advanced spread stage of the prostate cancer which usually comes at old age. As a matter of fact, according to researches, prostate cancer is very slow at its development stage, and usually spreads slowly. The lifecycle of a prostate cell carcinoma may not come to full before the death of the patients and in most cases such patients do not die as a result of prostate cancer, but due to other factors sometimes unrelated to the cancer. The reason for this is that the prostate cancer usually does not grow to its killer stage at the early or active life stages of the affected individuals, but rather at the late stage of the lives.