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Article: Prostate gland enlargement.
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The prostate gland is about the size and shape of a walnut and weighs in at around one ounce. Women seem to know more about this little gland than men do. About 11% of men don't know that they have this gland in their body. Only 15% of men have ever heard of the term prostatitis. Of the men who do know about prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate), about 16% of them think that this condition occurs in both men and women. About 50% of men will experience prostatitis during their lifetime, and one in four men will have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by the age of 50. (1)
Three major problems can occur in the prostate gland. Prostatitis, BPH, or cancer. A man ...