One of the most popular diagnostic tests performed to detect Prostate Cancer is Biopsy. If you are experiencing urination problems, erectile dysfunction, or any prostate-related symptoms and would seek medical advice from a medical practitioner, the usual recommendation would either be for you to undergo the PSA test first then Prostate Biopsy or the latter immediately.
Prostate Biopsy. This procedure may sound so simple, yet many are not aware of the discomfort, pain, and even life-long consequences that an individual has to go through in relation to this procedure.
Set to undergo biopsy? How will the procedure be done? Well, you will be made to lie on your side, curled in fetal position. An instrument will be inserted into the rectum to visualize the prostate and measure it for any abnormalities (cysts, stones, or masses). The small reproductive organs behind the prostate (seminal vesicles) will be evaluated and the area between it and the prostate will be injected one on each side with anesthesia, to numb it. The biopsy will be performed then, by taking samples of your prostate tissues and putting these samples under the microscope to look for cancer cells. Simple, right?
Would the procedure cause you pain? Definitely. The pain would not only be due to the anesthesia injections, but could also be experienced when the samples are being taken. This is a very invasive procedure which could cause infections after it is being done. Infections which are not only very painful, but the kind which could not easily be cured by the strongest antibiotics.
Indeed, biopsy is a very painful procedure, yet there is no guarantee that doing it would cure you from prostate diseases, or eliminate prostate cancer cells from your system. Who would want pain?
If you're the kind who doesn't want to get through an invasive and painful procedure like biopsy, you still have other options. Do it the natural way. Change your diet. Avoid food which could trigger prostate diseases. Change your lifestyle. Get into prostate-friendly exercises. Finally, and most important of all, take natural supplements which could keep or maintain the health of your prostate, and slow down the growth or eliminate those cancer cells.
We wouldn't want to experience pain if we could help it. Biopsy is a painful procedure. You therefore have to think a lot of times before you decide on it. Pain or no pain? The decision lies on you.
