Prostate cancer has four stages. These stages show how much the cancer has grown and spread in the body. Knowing the stage helps doctors choose the right treatment and understand the outlook. After ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

When prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate to nearby lymph nodes and other areas of the body and treatments can no longer slow or stop its growth, you are not alone. Many patients, despite ...

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...

The statistics are sobering and undeniable — African American men develop prostate cancer at twice the rate of white men and are more likely to die from the disease. This reality makes understanding ...