Prostate Cancer: Treatment
Prostate Cancer: Treatment
Prostate cancer is highly treatable. You have to carefully weigh the short-term and long-term side effects. Our experts break down the options.
Treatment: When to Start?
Active surveillance for prostate cancer is a very specific protocol with requirements and guidelines. While this is not ideal for everyone, it may work for certain patients and spare them the side effects of treatment.
Treatment: Watching and Waiting
Active surveillance for prostate cancer is a very specific protocol with requirements and guidelines. While this is not ideal for everyone, it may work for certain patients and spare them the side effects of treatment.
Before you decide on a surgeon or a surgical technique for prostate cancer, you should understand the options and some key questions to ask your surgeon.
Treatment: Considering Surgery
Before you decide on a surgeon or a surgical technique for prostate cancer, you should understand the options and some key questions to ask your surgeon.
Treatment: Surgery Side Effects
Treatment: HIFU
The CyberKnife might sound like a surgical tool but it's really a radiation device that's attached to a robotic arm to deliver targeted radiation to the tumor. According to research data, it appears similar in side effects and efficacy to other forms of radiotherapy. Oncologists have differing opinions on which radi... Read More