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 moreAfter robotic prostate surgery that is performed for cancer, the patient will have a foley catheter (a small drain that is placed in the... Read more »
Two news bulletins that hit the health news scene: (1) Chemotherapy may be a new and viable treatment option for Testicular Seminoma -... Read more »
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and GradingGrading refers to how abnormal the cells look under a microscope and how likely the cancer is to advance and spread. A pathologist will... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy may be used as an initial treatment for localized prostate cancer. It may also be used as treatment for cancer... Read more »
Several new studies suggest that cholesterol-lowering statins help prevent prostate cancer and reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction. In one study,... Read more »
Young men don't live as long with an advanced prostate cancer diagnosis as older men, a study suggests. An analysis of 318,774 men found that men who... Read more »
Men who eat fatty fish, such as salmon, have a lower risk of developing advanced prostate cancer, particularly among men who are genetically... Read more »