Prostate Treatment Options

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Prostate Treatment Options would depend on your age, your overall health and whether the tumor has spread. For tumors that are still inside the prostate, radiation therapy (using x-rays that kill the cancer cells) and a surgery called radical prostatectomy are common treatment options.

While “Watchful waiting” is also a treatment option in which no treatment is given until the tumor gets bigger. Watchful waiting may be the best choice for older men who have a higher risk of dying. Usually, tumors that have grown beyond the edge of the prostate can’t be cured with either radiation or surgery but my sometimes be treated with hormones that slow the cancer’s growth.

Prostate Treatment Options:

Prostate Treatment Options includes the followings…

Radical prostatectomy – Is a surgery to remove the whole prostate gland and the nearby lymph nodes. Then after the prostate gland is taken out through an incision a catheter is put through the penis into
the bladder to carry urine out of the body until the area heals.

Laparoscopic surgery – This helps the surgeon to see inside your body using a thin tube with a tiny camera attached to it. Small cuts are then made near the tumor site and thin tools are used to remove the tumor and surrounding tissue.

Some hospitals also have robots to assist in this kind of surgery usually a doctor operates the robot arm from a computer.

External beam radiation therapy – This procedure gives radiation from a machine like an x-ray machine.

Internal radiation therapy – In this procedure radioactive pellets called “seeds” are injected into the
prostate gland. This is sometimes called seed therapy or brachytherapy. 

Watchful waiting – Since a lot of men with a slow-growing tumor have the same life expectancy as men who don’t even have prostate cancer. It may not be necessary to treat very small and very slow-growing prostate tumors at all. Usually doctors get clues about the way your tumor will grow by checking your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level with a blood test, examining the biopsy tissue and giving you a rectal exam.

Hormone therapy – In this procedure male hormones called androgens that are produced mostly in the testicles are lowered in level. Since Androgens such as testosterone help the prostate tumor grow. Shots or pills can be given over a period of several months or having the testicles surgically removed can be done.

Once the testosterone is out of your body the prostate cancer usually shrinks and new growth slows down. Hormone treatments are often used in combination with other kinds of prostate cancer treatments.

After choosing and undergoing a treatment or your choice it is best to talk with your doctor about how frequently you will need follow-up PSA blood tests or other exams in order to make sure your body is cured.

Prostate Treatment Options