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Alternative ways to keep the prostate healthy

12 June 1998

If you are a man aged between 40 and 59, you have a 50 to 60 per cent chance of having benign enlargement of the prostate gland. Prostate problems - enlargement, infection and cancer - are on the rise. And medicine has not always been able to provide either cure or prevention. There has been some progress, however. Today, prostate is a household word whereas, barely a decade ago, many men didn't even know they had one. Five years ago, a survey in The Times newspaper (March 26, 1995) showed that a staggering 90 per cent of the men polled didn't even know where it was, 62 per cent mistook it for the bladder and only 50 per cent knew that only men could suffer from prostate problems. Once it begins to malfunction, however, a man will be only too painfully aware of both its presence and location.

The incidence of prostate cancer has soared by nearly 40 per cent since 1973. Though it is still rare among men under 50, it occurs most commonly in men aged 80 an...

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