Prostate cancer is often curable. About 90% of new cases of prostate cancer are caught early. Almost 100% of men with these early cancers survive 5 years or more after being diagnosed.1
Prostate cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the prostate.
Radiation therapy uses high doses of radiation, such as X-rays, to destroy cancer cells. The radiation damages the genetic material of the cells so that they can't grow. Although radiation damages normal cells as well as cancer cells,
A radical prostatectomy is an operation to remove the prostate gland and some of the tissue around it. It is done to remove prostate cancer. This operation may be done by open surgery or by laparoscopic surgery through small
Orchiectomy is the removal of the testicles, a man's main source of testosterone, which prostate cancer usually needs to continue growing.
Prostate cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the tissues of the prostate gland. Localized prostate cancer is cancer than has not spread beyond the prostate gland.
During any stage of prostate cancer, there are things you can do at home to help manage the side effects of cancer or treatment. See the following tips for managing:
Call your doctor immediately if you:
Radiation therapy may be used alone or combined with hormonal treatment or surgery to treat prostate cancer. Like surgery, it is most effective in treating cancer that has not spread outside the prostate. When combined with surger
Surgery is one of two main treatments for early-stage prostate cancer; radiation is the other. Surgery may be done to remove the prostate and its cancer. It may done to remove and test lymph nodes in the area to see whether the cancer
For many men a diagnosis of prostate cancer can be frightening.
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