| If you are an American or someone from North | | | | The staging of prostate type of cancer after |
| American (or even anywhere in the world) and | | | | diagnosis, for instance, plays a key role in figuring |
| you have just being diagnosed with prostate | | | | out which treatment choices are best for recently |
| cancer, or you know someone that has just being | | | | diagnosed patient. CT scans and MRIs do a great |
| diagnosed or you are just being concerned, you | | | | job as it were, but they can't find all cancers, |
| can get a lot of help from the American Cancer | | | | especially cancers in lymph nodes. As such, a new |
| Society. This article looks closely at this society | | | | type of enhanced MRI is being explored as a |
| and how it is helping the victims of cancer of the | | | | potential for making staging easier. Early results |
| prostate in particular. Whether you just want to | | | | naturally look good, but it will definitely require a |
| learn about the condition or get help, this society | | | | lot more time and study before it becomes |
| can help you. | | | | widely used. |
| The American Cancer Society (ACS) doesn't | | | | Treatment is also another critical thing about |
| actually do the research by itself, but it | | | | prostate cancer that needs to be improved upon. |
| encourages and sponsors the research of various | | | | Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, |
| scientists and doctors around the country, and | | | | hormonal treatments, and all of them all have |
| even across the world, helping to publish and | | | | their uses, but they also all have their limitations. |
| publicize their results so that everyone can learn | | | | This is therefore a very active area of research |
| and benefit from it. Prostate cancer for instance | | | | in which newer treatments are constantly being |
| has so many questions that are unanswered, and | | | | developed and current treatment methods being |
| so many aspects that are poorly understood, | | | | improved. |
| which the ACS is helping with. | | | | |