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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