Prostate cancer is relatively common among older men, but it is usually an extremely slow-growing cancer. Therefore, if a man is 75 years of age and is diagnosed with the disease, he and his doctor may opt to not treat it – and just keep an eye on it to ensure it doesn’t become aggressive.
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A urinary tract infection (UTI) – sometimes called a bladder infection – is usually the result of a bacterial infection somewhere along the urinary tract. Areas that may become infected include the: Urethra (duct from the bladder through which urine exits the body) Bladder (where urine is stored) Ureters (ducts that transfer urine from the
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Some 500,000 men in the United States opt to undergo a vasectomy each year. A birth control solution for men, a vasectomy is performed by surgically cutting or blocking the tubes (vas deferens) that carry sperm from the testicles to the penis. When the vas deferens are cut or blocked, sperm is prevented from exiting
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Women go through a menopause phase, and men go through an andropause phase. Andropause is a very gradual reduction in the male body’s production of androgenic hormones – particularly testosterone – along with related effects, during middle age and older. The production of testosterone begins to slow down by a percentage or two each year
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A vasectomy is a form of contraception in which a urologist snips the male’s vas deferens, the pathway sperm use to travel from the testes out through the penis during ejaculation. As time passes, it is not uncommon for some men who have undergone a vasectomy to reverse what is traditionally considered a permanent procedure.
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