Dr. Van Dellen’s How to Keep Well Hormones Work ‘Miracles’ In Early Prostate Cancer Cancer of the prostate is one of the few malignancies that responds to treatment after it has spread throughout the body. Astonishing results have been obtained even with victims on the brink of death. Life is prolonged, strength returns and pain often is eased. But cure is possible only while the cancer is still confined to the gland. In this stage, the surgeon removes the prostate (and its cancer) and the man lives a normal life expectancy. When cancer cells have spread elsewhere, cure is out of the question. Statistics show that metastasis usually has occurred by the time the malignancy is detected. This is ironic because diagnosis is easy to make via a painless one-minute rectal examination. PROSTATE cancer does not produce pain or other symptoms until it is far advanced. Difficult urination and a feeling of discomfort may be noted in the rectum and lower back. If the man regards these symptoms as natural for his age, diagnosis is delayed. The prostate is soft to the touch, whereas tumor tissue feels hard. Since no other lesion produces this particular finding, a small malignancy can be discovered easily. Cancer of the prostate is caused by an imbalance of the circulating sex hormones. The disease is aggravated by the male hormone and relieved by the female hormone. FEMALE sex hormones keep the malignancy in a state of chemical hibernation, so that is does not grow. Neither does it disappear but the victim usually lives out his normal life expectancy when he continues the estrogens. The effect is to inactivate the male hormone which we now know is the stimulus to the growth of prostatic cancer. Castration offers additional hope because it stops all the male hormone secretion. Eighty per cent of victims of this disease are improved with a combination of estrogens and castration. Up to 60% survive five years. In the Egyptian presidential election, Nasser was the only candidate, and yet we known of political pundits who, somehow or other, would have managed to pick even that one wrong.