Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate. It is often detected through blood tests for prostate-specific antigen, followed by a biopsy. Most prostate tumors (diagram pictured) cause no health problems, and are managed with surveillance. Dangerous tumors can be surgically removed or destroyed with radiation therapy. Those whose cancer spreads receive hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and eventually chemotherapy. Most tumors are confined to the prostate, and 99% of men survive ten years post-diagnosis. Those whose tumors have metastasized to distant body sites have a poorer prognosis; 30% to 40% are still alive five years after diagnosis. Each year 1.2 million men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 350,000 die of the disease, making it the second-leading cause of cancer in men. Prostate tumors were first described in the mid-19th century. Hormone therapies were developed in the mid–20th century, resulting in Nobel Prizes for their developers Charles Huggins and Andrzej Schally.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1555 – Marian Restoration: Because he opposed Catholicism, John Rogers was burned at the stake as the first English Protestant executed for heresy under the reign of Mary I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_%28Bible_editor_and_martyr%29

1945:

World War II: American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest enemy-civilian internment camp run by the Empire of Japan in the Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp

1999:

The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

daisy-chain: 1. (transitive) 2. (business) To artificially increase (the price of a commodity; originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group. 3. (chiefly computing, electronics) To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device or peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence. 4. (intransitive) 5. Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain. 6. (business) To artificially increase the price of a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group. 7. (chiefly computing, electronics) Especially of a computer device or peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daisy-chain

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire ... "Alice Cooper for President" ... When everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you know — even on a joke level — I think I got a lot of write-in votes.   --Alice Cooper https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper