SAN ANTONIO – As Prostate Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end, a local doctor is reminding all men that prostate cancer awareness is important year-round.

“Prostate cancer occurs everywhere across the country and across the world. We do see a lot of prostate cancer patients here in San Antonio,” said Doctor
Neil Chevli, a radiation oncologist at the
START Center for Cancer Care.

The prostate is located below the bladder and above the rectum. It is a gland that produces fluid that, together with sperm cells from the testicles and seminal vesicles, makes up semen.

Prostate cancer begins when cells in the prostate gland start to grow abnormally.