Benign prostatic enlargement
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an increase in size of the prostate gland without malignancy present and it is so common as to be normal with advancing age. It seems likely that the nature of BPH is a failure of apoptosis (natural programmed death of cells) and that some of the drugs used to treat it may induce that process.1
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/doctor/urology/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia