Management of prostate cancer
There are several treatment options for prostate cancer, as described below. The treatments that are out of their personal circumstances. This could be your health, your risk of side effects of treatment if the cancer has spread and, if so, to what extent. His PSA level and Gleason score can also help the doctor plan the best treatment for you. The Gleason score is a rating system that allows doctors to predict how fast the tumor can grow and spread. For more information on the Gleason score, please visit our FAQ section.
Your doctor will discuss your treatment options with you to help you make the decision to do the right thing for you. His decision is based on expert opinions and your doctor their own values and preferences.
Watchful waiting
Some men with prostate cancer have a tumor that grows very slowly and do not cause any symptoms. If this is the case, your doctor can monitor your cancer with regular checkups, but not immediately treated. This is called watchful waiting. Your doctor may also suggest that if you have other health condition, which means that you have is not enough, certain treatments such as surgery are.
The goal of treatment and hopefully prevent or delay until needed. This means that you will only be offered if treatment begins, signs that your condition ahead to show.
If the cancer cause signs of growth or begins, symptoms, the doctor can treat, monitor and propose to control their symptoms. For example, you may be offered hormone therapy. The goal of this treatment is to slow down and manage any symptoms develop, cancer growth. This treatment aims to relieve symptoms and no cure.
Active monitoring
Active surveillance and watchful waiting is that you have to treat immediately. However, your doctor will monitor better than watchful waiting. The goal of active surveillance is to try and get rid of your cancer, once preceded by signs.
During active surveillance, your doctor will ask you to check the regular blood tests for PSA levels. He or she may also ask you regular prostate exams done. You must provide a biopsy after a year of active surveillance. A biopsy is a small sample of tissue. This is to determine a laboratory for testing of cell types and transferred to when benign (noncancerous) or cancer. After these tests it means that if the cancer begins to grow, your doctor will record this quickly and provide treatment immediately.
If signs of progressive disease, your doctor may recommend that you have addressed free treatment on top of your cancer. For example, you may be offered surgery or radiation.
Surgery
An operation to remove the prostate, is, along with radiotherapy, one of the main applications for prostate cancer. It can offer surgery if otherwise healthy and if the cancer has not spread beyond his prostate.
Surgery to remove the entire prostate is called radical prostatectomy. The surgeon may be caused by a cut in the abdomen (tummy), or minimally invasive surgery, small incisions to employee. Because the technique has advanced so much, there are many different possibilities for the removal of the prostate during operation. Your doctor will talk to you about your treatment options.
Sometimes, when a cancer of the pressure on the urethra, which can be offered an operation called transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). This may help the symptoms and make it easier for you to pass urine.
Some men also have the testicle removed (orchiectomy). Your testes produce the hormone testosterone and this tumor needs to grow. Removing the testes reduces the amount of testosterone in the blood that helps control cancer and reduce tumor size. This treatment is not often as hormonal treatments do this now, without the need for surgery are used.
Radiotherapy
Radiation therapy is a commonly used treatment for prostate cancer. They can offer radiation therapy to treat prostate cancer that has not spread outside the prostate. You can also radiotherapy to treat cancer that has spread and available to control any pain. Radiation therapy uses radiation to kill cancer cells. A beam of radiation to cancer cells, reducing the target tumor. This is known as external beam radiation. This treatment is usually given in daily doses for four to eight weeks. You can also register radiotherapy in prostate radioactive seeds or wires - this is known as brachytherapy. However, this treatment may not be suitable for everyone and your doctor will discuss your treatment options with you.
Hormone therapy and other medications
Hormone therapy blocks the effect of testosterone. This may slow the growth of prostate tumors. You can use this type of treatment offered to return to the risk of early prostate cancer, after having treatment to reduce. You can also offer hormone therapy to shrink a tumor of the enlarged prostate.
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Your doctor may recommend chemotherapy if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. It can also be used if hormone therapy is not working.
If the above treatments do not help, you can treatment with other drugs such as abiraterone or ENZALUTAMIDE offered. However, the supply of drugs based on their personal circumstances. Talk to your doctor for more information about your treatment options.
Experimental treatments
If you have a cancer that has not spread beyond the prostate, the doctor may, as part of a clinical trial offer certain new treatments. These include the following.
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). This uses energy of high intensity ultrasound to heat and destroy cancer cells in the prostate.
Cryotherapy. This kills cancer cells by freezing the prostate.
Investigate how well these treatments work is not yet complete. As with any treatment are several side effects associated with HIFU and cryotherapy. Your doctor will explain the risks and benefits of these treatments.
