By Nelson Berry

Thanks to much better education and scientific breakthroughs, dealing with cancer is much easier these days than in the previous years. Usually, treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation can slow down the spread or help you go into remission for several years. There are also medications you can take to control the signs and symptoms of the illness.

Most of all, there are some ways on how to manage the illness and take care of yourself without becoming too dependent on drugs and other treatment procedures. Here are some of these ideas:

1. Get a lot of rest. One of the common signs of cancer is fatigue or lethargy. You feel tired a lot of times. You have no appetite for everything. That is why you need plenty of rest when you are sick. It is time for you to cut back on your number of working hours. If not, you should reduce your commitments by delegating tasks. By resting, you give your body a chance to heal itself as well as to reserve whatever energy you have for something more important.

2. Reduce your level of stress. You also need to control your level of stress, in general. Stress affects all aspects of your life: physical, mental, and emotional. It often leads to hormonal imbalances and the improper functioning of the various neurons in the body. In case you have not noticed, you get easily depressed or suffer from panic attacks when you are under too much stress.

Stress can also weaken your immune system. If you are sick of cancer, immunity plays a very huge role. You want it to function strongly so you'll have a formidable defense system against the disease.

3. Meditate. Meditation is highly recommended to people who are suffering from cancer. For one, it boosts the immune system. It can also help in reducing the spread of cancer cells, as these types of cells don't thrive in an alkaline environment. One of the ways to make your body alkaline is by increasing the amount of oxygen in the body through proper breathing.

Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually meditation can be of great use. It brings you to the present. The action of concentrating on your breaths helps you be more aware and in tune of the now than of the future or of the past. It then ushers appreciation to your present life, what you are at that moment. Second, it clears your mind from a lot of clutter.

Using Subliminal Messages or Affirmations

In all these tips, you can utilize subliminal messages or affirmations. These are very powerful phrases and sentences. They can change the way your mind thinks by feeding your subconscious with positive statements.

Every time you are at rest or in meditation, you can listen to subliminal messages downloads that may contain the following:

My life is at peace, and I am happy.
There are plenty of things I am grateful for.
I appreciate the blessings of the present.
The future can take care of itself.

If you want to know the latest prostate cancer news you will have to use the Internet to get this information. Although the Web may be a difficult place at times to locate specific information, there are ways to get the latest prostate cancer treatment news right from your computer. I thought of giving you some of the prostate cancer news but it would be yesterday's news so to speak and be of little value as time wore on. Instead, here are a few ideas on finding the latest prostate cancer treatment news yourself anytime you want to.

To get started you will need to visit one of the larger search engines, like MSN, Yahoo.com, or Google and will begin a search for news specific information. Although you may have use a search engine to find things on the Web, many search engines also have an option to look for news. By selecting news, you're limiting your search to only those sites that have the latest information you may be looking for.

So once on the search engine home page and after selecting a news type search, you're ready to begin locating your prostate cancer treatment information. After doing that, then type in the information in the space provided. To refine our search to get the latest news on prostate cancer treatments, you would enter the following into the box "prostate cancer" + "new treatment " then hit enter.

Be certain to use the quotes are you will get a lot more news that isn't nearly as targeted as our interest is only in new treatments for prostate cancer. Without the quotes, we may get information on all types of cancer and all treatments, no matter new. The quote marks are important, so that the search engine will know that you want new treatments concerning prostate cancer.

The + between the prostate cancer in new treatment phrases tells your computer system to bring you news that has "prostate cancer" AND "new treatment" in the article. This is the absolutely best way to find prostate cancer news on the Internet.

Another option is to manually review popular news sites such as www.healthfinder.gov and health.yahoo.com/.

If you want your news on any new treatments for prostate cancer to be delivered to your system automatically, consider using a news aggregator and RSS feed. This bit of technology can provide regular updates on any new prostate cancer treatment that's mentioned in the news or health journals and deliver about information write to your desktop.

Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia has a with of news aggregators available for your use at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/List_of_news_aggregators.

There are of course the old media and methods of staying updated about new treatment options. Of course, this means reviewing newspapers, magazines and journals manually. The good news once again however, is that a news aggregator can do this review of all online editions of these resources

So, although you may think the Web is nothing more than advertisements and spam e-mail, you will find that its search capabilities can provide a fantastic array of useful information on any subject, including new prostate cancer treatments and advancements.

Here's the one fact that all men need to understand:
Early prostate cancer detection is the difference between living and dying as far as prostate cancer is concerned.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that cancer is one of the leading causes of death. What you may not have realized is that cancer is the second leading cause of death for men and prostate cancer is a very major contributor.

The reason for this is that prostate cancer can expand beyond the prostate gland and travel to other parts of the body. So a highly treatable cancer in the prostate is ignored and kill it grows into other parts of the body and becomes much more deadly.

The sad part is that doctors are able to detect prostate cancer in its very early stages. To complicate matters however, there are a few symptoms that are directly associated with prostate cancer alone. This in turn causes many men to simply ignore common symptoms until prostate cancer grows beyond the gland and becomes a seriously life threatening cancer.

The good news is that this disease is a slow progressive type of cancer while still localized in the prostate. A person can have prostate cancer for years and not know it if they don't undergo several very simple diagnostic tests. Men with no family history of prostate cancer should be tested yearly. Black men and those with a family member who has had prostate cancer should consider annual testing at age 40.

Prostate cancer screening tests are simple and inexpensive.
+ Digital Rectal Examination
+ PSA Blood test. Measures levels of Prostate-Specific Antigen a key prostate cancer marker.

Your chance of survival and cure is directly related to early detection, diagnosis and treatment. Consistent testing will dramatically increase the chances of early detection before it becomes serious.

Another benefit of early detection is that the treatment options are much less radical. Earlier treatment methods are much more successful in not only curing prostate cancer but also limiting the complications and side effects of more aggressive treatment options.

If you haven't been insisting on a prostate exam and blood test for prostate cancer indicators, you owe it to yourself and your family to start now. Prostate cancer is a serious illness that needs to be identified as soon as possible.

So at your next annual physical, make certain that basic prostate cancer screening tests are done.