How to Use prostate in a Sentence

prostate

noun
  • Even the rectal exam has been a cause for many men to avoid prostate cancer screening.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Couric’s family: her mother had lymphoma and her father had prostate cancer.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Hideki lost his own father in February to prostate cancer.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Khamenei, who turned eighty-three this summer, underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 2014.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Her mother also battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for a decade, while her father was treated for prostate cancer.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The company will also use the software to help build an algorithm for predicting the metastasis of prostate cancer.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Prostate surgery, particularly for conditions like prostate cancer, can disrupt the pelvic floor muscles.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • If this isn’t well-tolerated, there are other similar drugs, or a different class of drugs, to shrink the prostate, such as finasteride (Proscar).
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Life Is a Carnival will take place just a little over 14 months after Robertson died after a year-long battle with prostate cancer.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
  • Radiation treatment or surgery for prostate cancer can result in urinary incontinence and impotence.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The first, Provenge, was approved in the U.S. in 2010 to treat prostate cancer that had spread.
    Carla K. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Joan Watts.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Very often, the problem isn’t the prostate at all -- but the bladder.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
  • The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Joan Brand Watts.
    Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The drugs are used to treat cancers of the lung, bladder, breast and prostate, among others.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • In the Spring of 2022, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Case in point: Black men are around twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than white men.
    Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 June 2023
  • About $10 billion is spent treating prostate cancer in the US each year.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Brooke's father died due to prostate cancer in Florida at the age of 61.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The case was brought by Roger M. Kligler, a Falmouth doctor who has stage 4 prostate cancer.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Cynthia Elliott.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The cause was metastatic prostate cancer, said his son Stephen Amitay.
    Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Some prostate cancer treatments can make the problem worse.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The news of her surgery came on the same day as the announcement that King Charles was due to receive treatment for an enlarged prostate.
    Ollie MacNaughton, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Breast and prostate cancer are also the leading causes of death in the Caribbean and across Africa.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Compare and contrast this with the King's prostate procedure.
    Brie Stimson, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Her mother had cared for her father, who'd died of prostate cancer.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The study only included men who were not at high risk for prostate cancer.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • The cause was prostate cancer, the Seattle Times reported.
    Gene Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022

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