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Prostate diseases: talk about it without taboo

The prostate is a small gland located below the bladder in men.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

1 min

A small male gland located at the heart of the urinary and genital systems, the prostate can be affected by various pathologies (inflammation, tumour, etc.).

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What symptoms should lead to consultation?

How to prevent and ensure good prostate health?

Is it necessary to consult from the age of 50?

  • Pr François Desgrandchamps,

    Head of the Urology Department at

    Saint-Louis Hospital

    in Paris, and of the CEA's Immuno-Onco-Urology Translational Unit, and former head of the Committee for Male Voiding Disorders at

    the French Association of Urology

  • Dr Fouad Soumanou,

    urologist in Benin and member of the Beninese society of urology.

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, director of international relations at the Institut Curie.

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