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Home Blog Posts What You Should Know about National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

What You Should Know about National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

September 22, 2016Becky MoultrieBlog Posts, Senior Care in Largo FL

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Senior Care in Largo FLSeptember is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. As a family caregiver this is the ideal time for you to learn more about this type of cancer and what you can do to help your parent make the decisions about their health that are right for them.

Some things that you should know about prostate cancer include:

• There are approximately 180,890 new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed throughout the United States each year
• This number of new cases accounts for nearly 11 percent of all new cancer cases that are diagnosed throughout the United States each year
• Approximately 26,120 people die from prostate cancer in the United States each year
• This number of deaths accounts for 4.4 percent of the deaths due to cancer throughout the United States each year
• Just under 13 percent of men will receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer at some point in their lives
• Nearly 3 million men throughout the United States are currently living with prostate cancer
• The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is nearly 99 percent
• The five-year relative survival rate for localized prostate cancer, that is, cancer that has not moved from its site of origin, is 100 percent
• Approximately 80 percent of new cases of prostate cancer are localized at diagnosis
• The five-year relative survival rate for regional prostate cancer, that is, cancer that has spread only to the regional lymph nodes, is 100 percent
• Approximately 12 percent of new cases of prostate cancer are regional at diagnosis
• The five-year relative survival rate for unstaged prostate cancer, that is, cancer that does not have a specified stage, is nearly 79.4 percent
• Approximately 4 percent of new cases of prostate cancer are unstaged at diagnosis
• The five-year relative survival rate for distant prostate cancer, that is, cancer that has metastasized, is approximately 29.3 percent
• Approximately 4 percent of new cases of prostate cancer are distant at diagnosis
• Death rates for prostate cancer have been decreasing progressively over the last 10 years, thanks in part to the development of increasingly accurate early detection techniques that allow men to get proper treatment as early in the cancer as possible.

If your elderly parent has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer, starting senior care for them can be one of the best decisions that you can make to not only help them through this situation, and to make caring for them easier for you as well. A senior home care services provider can be with your aging loved one on a customized schedule to offer an approach to care, assistance, and support tailored to their individual needs, challenges, and limitations so that they are able to live the quality of life that they need and deserve as they move through their experience with cancer. This can give you peace of mind that they are getting everything they need to stay healthy, safe, and comfortable even when you are not able to be with them.

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html

If You Or An Aging Loved One Are Considering Hiring In-Home Senior Care in Largo, FL, Please Contact The Caring Staff At Assisting Hands Home Care Today! 727-748-4211.

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