Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why Men Need Prostate Exams At 45 👨‍⚕️ #ProstateHealth #Men

9 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Anne Truong explains why men should start prostate exams at 45. The prostate naturally enlarges with age, and a digital rectal exam is the only way doctors can physically check it since the gland can't be felt from outside.

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Do you see where the prostate is? Every man has a prostate, and it actually enlarges as you get older, which is normal. That's why you should always have a prostate exam after the age of probably 45. And the prostate exam is when the doctor puts his or her finger up into your rectum, and that's the only way to feel it. So we will put the finger like this, and that's how the doctor feels the prostate. It's do a rectal exam. You can't feel it from the outside. You have to feel from the inside. And that's how we know, is rectal exam.