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Article: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Is Seen As Two Diseases, Not One, With Hook Into Prostate Cancer.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Three men out of four who reach 75 years of age will acquire a disease called BPH - benign prostatic hyperplasia. Its symptoms are bothersome, but not dire.
Unwelcome urination is the main bane of BPH. It takes the form of two primary symptoms - frequency and urgency. Frequency means waking often at night to visit the bathroom. Urgency, whether by night or day, insists on answering nature's bladder-voiding call right now, without delay.
Roughly the size and shape of a walnut, the prostate gland wraps around the urethra - the canal by which the bladder empties through the penis. "The human prostate gland," observed research ...