What Is The Best Prostate Cancer Treatment?
What Is The Best Prostate Cancer Treatment?
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The answer to this has been sought by millions of men and their doctors for over one hundred years. There is no one answer as of yet. Your treatment will depend on your health and how early the cancer was discovered.
This article is not intended as medical advice, nor should it be taken as medical advice. It is for informational purposes only. With a physical illness you should consult your personal physician.
Many factors must be considered by you and your medical team before the right choice can be made for treatment. Each individual is considered for their health and the state in which the cancer was discovered. All treatments must consider the patients health and other health problems that they may already have. This may restrict some treatments or make some more valuable.
Depending on the stage of your prostate cancer, you may be advised not to undergo any treatment. It may not be evident which treatment is best for you. Prostate cancer is slow developing. This gives the doctors time to discover what treatment you will react to best. This “wait” time is not wasted, it is used to find the best solution for you.
Based on the stage of your cancer, one or more treatments may be recommended. This is a complex decision. At this point you may well want to seek a second opinion if you do not agree with the treatment choices presented to you.
Radiotherapy may be used alone depending on the spread of your cancer to close surrounding tissue or if it has remained localized. This treatment is performed with a focused x-ray beam directly to the prostate gland. Radiotherapy can also be used if the tumor has masticated and infected the surrounding tissue or lymph’s of the prostate.
Even though some of the diseased cells have spread to other tissue, it may still be considered localized. At this point a recommended treatment is a combination of radiotherapy and hormone therapy. The infected areas will receive radioactive waves plus a hormone will block the male testosterone being relesed into the prostate.
In addition to other treatments, your medical team may recommend a radical prostatectomy. This means the removal of the prostate and the radioactive treatment of the surrounding tissues. With advances in lasers, the prostatectomy can be performed with little or no damage done to the surrounding nerves.
This will limit problems with erectile dysfunction that occured in earlier treatments of this type.
There are currently many options in treatment for prostate cancer. Be sure to discuss them all with your doctor, so that you can get the best treatment possible for you.
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