Treatment choices are generally based on the patient's age, the stage and grade of the cancer, overall health status, and the patient's personal preferences for the risks and benefits of each therapy.
Patients should be aware that doctors may be biased to prefer a specific treatment depending on their specialty, with urologists and medical oncologists tending to recommend watchful waiting, surgery, or hormone therapy and radiation oncologists recommending radiation therapy. It is always...
Read moreI recently saw a 49-year-old male in my office for an elevated PSA of 2.7 ng/ml. It was 2.4 ng/ml 3 months earlier. His father had prostate... Read more »
Prostate cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world and the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Almost a quarter... Read more »
Most patients who have prostate cancer are diagnosed with early-stage disease that is localized to the prostate. These patients are able... Read more »
Happy New Year. I would like to start the New Year answering one of ProstateCommons SharePosts. An overweight man with diabetes was... Read more »
One of the outcomes of prostate surgery is erectile dysfunction. So it is a bit alarming that advanced stage (IV) prostate cancer is... Read more »
I’ve done a lot of thinking about cancer. My first brush with cancer occurred in 1992, when I was diagnosed with and survived non-Hodgkin’s... Read more »
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AMACR Information In 2006, it is estimated that 234,460 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 27,350 will die from their... Read more »
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What Is It? Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the prostate gland, a gland near the base of the penis that produces part... Read more »
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Active Surveillance (Watchful Waiting)Active surveillance involves lifestyle change and careful monitoring of cancer with conversion to active... Read more »
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PrognosisProstate cancer is the most common internal cancer in American men. (For men, skin cancer is the most common cancer and only lung cancer... Read more »