Doctors treating prostate cancer have a wide range of tools available. Your doctors will work with you to design a treatment plan that gives you the greatest chance of longer life, while managing side effects and preserving prostate function. Learn more about the treatment options for prostate cancer.
Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
What is Radiation Therapy? Radiation is the strategic use of ionizing radiation or photons to kill cancer cells. It works by damaging the cancer cells’ DNA (the genetic blueprint of the cancer cell).The targeted cells die without growing or replicating themselves. Radiation therapy, like surgery, is ...
Surgery for Prostate Cancer
Radical Prostatectomy Removing the entire prostate gland through surgery, known as a radical prostatectomy, is a common option for men whose cancer has not spread. For men with advanced or recurrent disease, other surgical procedures may be chosen, such as removal of lymph nodes, which are ...
Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Hormone Therapy Because testosterone serves as the main fuel for prostate cancer cell growth, it’s a common target for treatment. Hormone therapy (also called androgen deprivation therapy or ADT) is part of the standard of care for advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. ADT is designed to ...
Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer
https://vimeo.com/733001707/ab83c23b8c In recent years, the role of chemotherapy has changed in prostate cancer treatment. Multiple clinical trials have shown that for patients with metastatic prostate cancer who are starting hormone therapy for the first time, adding docetaxel chemotherapy lengthens life. Read more about treatment "intensification" with ...
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Active Surveillance
What is Active Surveillance? The concept of Active Surveillance has increasingly emerged as a viable option for men who decide not to undergo immediate radical treatment for prostate cancer (surgery or radiation therapy). Active Surveillance is based on the concept that low-risk prostate cancer ...
Precision Therapies for Prostate Cancer
What is Precision Medicine? Precision medicine uses new diagnostic tests to treat the right patient with the right medicine at the right time based on the genetic make-up of that patient’s cancer. The promise of precision medicine is this: someday, there will be no trial and ...
Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer
The immune system has the remarkable ability to kills cells that can cause harm, such as infected cells or cancer cells. However, in most patients with progressing cancer, anti-cancer immune responses either never developed or have been turned off by the cancer. One way to fight ...
Choosing a Treatment Option
Treatment Options for Localized or Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer A man diagnosed with localized or locally advanced prostate cancer has 3 major treatment options: Active Surveillance, surgery, and radiation therapy. For patients whose cancer appears more aggressive, combination treatment may be recommended. For ...
You’ve Got Prostate Cancer. Now What? Read This First.
You’ve had the PSA test – or more likely, several of them – plus the digital rectal exam, and one or both of these suggested that you needed a biopsy. The biopsy was not fun, but ...
Janet Farrar Worthington
“If This Is Going to Be Aggressive, I’m Going to Be Aggressive, Too.”
Malcolm Carmine, age 52, has metastatic prostate cancer. But prostate cancer doesn’t have him. ...
Janet Farrar Worthington
When Treatment Stops Working: Blame Resistance
In the upside down world of prostate cancer, the good guys want to win the ...