Prostate Cancer Therapies

One in six men in the USA and Canada will need some form of prostate cancer treatment. This is a frightening thought, but countering it is the information that around 90% of cases of prostate cancer are cured successfully.

Prostate cancers can get cut out, irradiated or otherwise treated. The only requirement for guaranteed success is an early detection. However, even if diagnosis is a little late, there is still a decent chance of recovery, it is only that the cure may be more severe.

Before we go any further on this subject, I have to warn you that what I am writing is my interpretation of my own research into prostate cancer. I am not a doctor; just an interested party being a male who is beginning to enter the age bracket where the incidence of prostate cancer begins to rise. I am more than 50.

Prostate cancer is one of the more readily treatable cancers but it is certainly life-threatening. It is a serious disease that will kill you if you do nothing about it. The trick is to catch it early. The earlier you catch it, the more easily, more painlessly and more quickly it can be dealt with.

After a quick, easy and painless test, you will be told the likelihood that you have prostate cancer, but this test is not decisive, you will have to go for further check ups to confirm the diagnosis. If the tests prove that you have a problem, your oncologist or urologist will determine a answer.

These are a few of the terms used when describing prostate cancer:

Stage One: cancer is discovered just in the prostate

Stage Two: a larger cancer but it is still found only within the prostate gland itself

Stage Three: the growth is starting to spread outside the prostate

Stage Four: the growth is growing outside the prostate to a greater extent

Stage Five: the cancer has spread to other parts of the body ? metastasis.

Recurrent: the cancer returns after treatment.

These different stages of prostate cancer might be treated in different ways:

Stage 1: sometimes referred to as localized prostate cancer, the medical doctor may suggest the following treatments: Wait and see. (Closely monitored) ? Radiotherapy ? Radical prostatectomy (full removal of the prostate) ? Hormone therapy

Stage 2: this is more advanced but still localized within the prostate only: watchful waiting (with increased monitoring activity); Radiotherapy (may or may not be done with hormone therapy); radical prostatectomy (maybe with hormone therapy or not); hormone therapy

Stage 3: the cancer has progressed outside the prostate to nearby tissue: external-beam radiotherapy (Hormone Therapy or not) ? Hormone Therapy ? Radical removal of the prostate (possibly hormone therapy or not) ? Increased monitoring by the doctors

Stage 5: the prostate cancer has metastasized (spread throughout body and bones): Hormone therapy ? External-beam radiotherapy (with or without hormone therapy) ? Very closely monitored ? Chemotherapy

Recurrence of Prostate Cancer: Close monitoring ? Possibly all of the above treatments

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now concerned with prostate cancer and radiation treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?

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