Prostate Cancer Treatment

 

Prostate cancer treatment options:

There’s no one prostate cancer treatment that’s right for every man, purely depends on:

1)      The size of your tumor and how far it has spread. This is called the stage of your disease.

2)      How quickly the tumor is likely to grow

3)      Your age and how healthy you are

4)      Your personal preferences.

Various treatments available are:

·         Surgery: It’s an option if you're healthy and your cancer hasn't spread.

·         Radiation: This treatment uses high-energy beams (similar to X-rays) to kill the cancer. It's often a choice when your cancer is low grade or still only in your prostate. There are two types of radiation-

External, 2) Internal

·         Proton Beam radiation: This special kind of radiation therapy uses very small particles to attack and kill cancer cells that haven't spread.

·         Hormone therapy: This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting testosterone.

·         Chemotherapy: Drugs that you take by mouth or through an IV travel through your body, attacking and killing cancer cells and shrinking tumors.

·         Immunotherapy: This treatment works with your immune system to fight the disease. It’s used to treat advanced prostate cancer.

·         Bisphophonate Theraphy: If the disease reaches your bones, these drugs can ease pain and prevent fractures.

·         Cryotheraphy: If you have early prostate cancer, your doctor might choose to kill cancer cells by freezing them. He’ll put small needles or probes into your prostate to deliver very cold gasses that destroy the cells.

·         High-intensity Focused ultrasound: this device produces sound waves that deliver heat energy to kill cancer cells.

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