World Day for the Fight against Prostate Cancer

June 11 is the day dedicated to raise awareness of prostate cancer, a disease that, according to GLOBOCAN, worldwide, claimed the lives of more than 375,000 people in 2020.

The prostate is a gland exclusive to men, which has the function of producing important substances of the seminal fluid and therefore has a role in reproduction. The most important diseases that can affect it are prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Prostate cancer is the first cause of death by cancer in men and it is a disease that, if detected in early stages, has a high possibility of being cured with the treatments that are available today. Like most cancers, it does not produce symptoms until the disease is advanced and out of therapeutic reach for curative purposes.

That is why it is of utmost importance not to wait for symptoms and to have an annual check-up from the age of 50 for those men without a family history of cancer, and from 45 for those who do have it.