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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Vasectomy Reversal
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
Read MoreWhat Is Andropause?
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
Read MoreVasectomy Reversal
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.
Read MoreMale Fertility Issues
The decision to have a child can be exciting and nerve-wracking. But for the approximately one in twenty men who have fertility issues, the decision to start a family is the easy part. And with one in one hundred men being functionally sterile, meaning there is zero sperm in their ejaculate, male infertility can add
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