Prostate Cancer: Treatments

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  • Prostate cancer: Treatment - Patient Information [NCI PDQ]

    05/23/08, Healthwise

    Prostate cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the prostate.

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  • Should I have radiation therapy or a prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer?

    06/27/08, Healthwise

    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.

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  • Radiation therapy for prostate cancer

    06/27/08, Healthwise

    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, the

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  • Radical prostatectomy

    06/27/08, Healthwise

    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 i

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  • Orchiectomy

    07/01/08, Healthwise

    Orchiectomy is the removal of the testicles. The penis and the scrotum, the pouch of skin that holds the testicles, are left intact. An orchiectomy is done to stop most of the body's production of testosterone, which prostate cancer u

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  • Prostate Cancer - Treatment Overview

    06/27/08, Healthwise

    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

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  • Prostate Cancer - Surgery

    06/27/08, Healthwise

    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

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