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Understanding Your Prostate
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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Scrotum • In men, the pouch of skin that contains the testicles (balls).

Second opinion • Term used by insurance and medical experts to mean asking another doctor to review your case and the treatment proposed for you.

Seed implant (brachytherapy) • Radiation therapy in which a radiation source is placed in the prostate.

Semen • Male sex fluid.

 

Seminal vesicle • A small sac attached to the prostate that holds sperm. Cancer may spread there.

Stage • With cancer, the stage describes how much a cancer has probably spread.