Is it possible for a 14-year-old to have prostate cancer?
8 doctors weighed in:
Is it possible for a 14-year-old to have prostate cancer?
8 doctors weighed in
Dr. Chris Kyle
Urology
In brief:
Rare, not impossible
Nothing is impossible
14 year old boys have a prostate, and any organ can get cancer
it would be extremely rare and likely the source of a journal article
in a patient that young, it would most likely be a rhabdomyosarcoma, not a traditional adenocarcinoma.
In brief:
Rare, not impossible
Nothing is impossible
14 year old boys have a prostate, and any organ can get cancer
it would be extremely rare and likely the source of a journal article
in a patient that young, it would most likely be a rhabdomyosarcoma, not a traditional adenocarcinoma.
Dr. Chris Kyle
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Dr. Naveen Kella
Urology - Oncology
In brief:
Not likely
Youngest patient i ever saw was nearly 40.
If you haven't hit puberty, you cannot develop prostate cancer.
In brief:
Not likely
Youngest patient i ever saw was nearly 40.
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