According with the Registrar of Histopathological Malign Neoplasias (Registry Histopatológico de Neoplasias Malignas) of the Health Secretary, 87.6% of those who develop prostate cancer die of that disease. Presently this neoplasia is the second most frequent in men, with a rate of 77.7 for each 100 thousand inhabitants and appears in half of the over 65 years male population.

The main cause of such a high mortality is the refusal in men to get a periodic medical checkup after the age of 40, because it is during that decade of their life that the risk of developing what it is known as benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) increases, which consists in the growth of the prostate. When this is not detected in time it can develop into a cancer.

Men do not take the test of rectal tact because 'they see this as an invasion to their privacy and male hood and out of fear of pain' pointed doctor Gabriel Catalan Quinto, member of the Mexican Society of Urology (SMU), that maintained that this test lasts only two minutes and the annoyances are minimal.

Among the symptoms of BPH are: intense pain during the micturition, urinary incontinence, diminution of the urine flow force, sensation of incomplete bladder emptying and need to go to the bathroom several times during the night, among others, he asserted that prostate cancer causes great emotional damage since it generates erectile dysfunction and sexual impotence.

For these reasons men, 40 years and over, must visit their urologist at least every two years for a medical examination, although they might not have the symptoms, because this disorder in its initial phase is completely curable.

Risk increases with age, as well as in men with family breast or prostate cancer precedents, and if the father or grandfathers were affected, the probability increases nine fold.

Some other risk factors, the specialist explained, are erections without ejaculation, infections of sexual transmission, inhibiting urination for long periods, the lack of natural water ingestion and a high fat content diet.

Prostate cancer, along with colon cancer, are closely related to the degree of development and ageing of a country, reason why a high fat diet devoid of green fruits and vegetables, along with little or null ingestion of liquids, increases the risk of developing them, assured the specialist.

The experts indicated that during the first stages, cancer is limited to the prostate, and is not mortal. For that reason the opportune detection through rectal tact and the prostate antigen blood test are fundamental to avoid cancer spreading to other organs.

'BPH is the most frequent prostate disease and affects 50 percents of men over 50 years. Its incidence increases progressively with age, so that by the time they reach 80 years, 80 percent of men present/display symptoms attributable to this disease ", indicated the specialist Jorge Jaspersen Gastélum