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Current Therapies for Treating Prostate Cancer
So the biopsy came back positive. Sorry to hear that. Now is the time to explore your prostate cancer treatment options to find the one that is best for you.|
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It's safe to assume there will be side affects with any of the prostate disease treatment choices. With impotence and incontinence heading the list. Both may be temporary or more or less permanent. Just depends. Which is why you want to probably pick the course of prostate cancer therapy available to you that carries the lowest risk of each. Here are the typical procedures for treating prostate cancer. Radiation treatment involves either brachytherapy or external radiation treatments. Another prostate cancer treatment option is hormone therapy. Or depriving the tumor of testosterone - which is required for prostate growth. |
You can elect surgical removal of your prostate. This might include laparascopic surgery or a procedure known as the Da Vinci method which involves surgical assistance from a robot.
Some opt for hormone therapy or even castration to stop production of testosterone which feed the tumor.
Then there's rapid freezing of the cancer cells or cryosurgery to cure prostate cancer.
And you might be able to opt for what's called watchful waiting. Where your low risk cancer is carefully monitored over time.
It's safe to assume that the earlier you catch the cancer the more treatment options you'll have available to you.
It's also safe to assume that which is the best treatment for your prostate cancer depends on whom you ask.
Surgeons will tell you that a chance to cut is a chance to cure.
Most any oncologist has the most faith in radiation therapy.
Unfortunately you will be hard pressed to find any scientific proof that any one way of treating prostate cancer is better than another. The best option is decided upon on a case by case basis. Which is why you should research all the choices before deciding on the best prostate cancer treatments for you.
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