Choosing the best treatment for prostate cancer, can be a difficult and confusing experience.
You have many options to choose from.
Some more invasive than others.
Should you be extra careful and get your prostate removed through surgery, or more conservative with medication or watchful waiting?
Here are some directions you can take for your future prostate cancer treatment.
Prostate Cancer Therapy Recommendations
1. Active Surveillance - Wait and see approach.
2. Prostate surgery (prostatectomy) - Removal of the prostate.
3. Radiation/Brachytherapy.
4. Hormone therapy.
5. Cryotherapy - Freezing the tissue with liquid nitrogen.
6. Chemotherapy.
Active Surveillance
Depending on your form of prostate cancer and treatment, watchful waiting may be recommended. It is a good indication if your cancer is slow growing and fully contained within the prostate. Your doctor will most likely request regular check-ups involving; PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) tests, digital prostate exams, and a biopsy from time to time if warranted.
Prostate Surgery
Involves complete removal of your prostate. It is generally performed when the cancer is entirely contained within the prostate, is growing at a faster rate, and has not spread. The less conservative your doctor the higher likelihood he will favor surgery over watchful waiting.
Radiation / Brachytherapy
If your cancer has spread or has a high probability of spreading, radiation treatment will more than likely be prescribed. Typically, a finely aimed beam of radiation will be projected towards the prostate, causing death of the cancer and normal cells within and around the prostate.
Hormone Therapy
Historically doctors have prescribed prostate cancer drugs like anti-testosterone therapy to temporarily reduce growth of the prostate cancer.
A newer and more effective therapy is to prescribe anti-estrogen drugs, since estrogen is the main offender for uncontrolled growth of cancerous tissue. Your doctor will usually combine this treatment as a supplement to others.
Cryotherapy
Your doctor may prescribe this an alternative to surgery, especially if you are older or have other medical complications. The procedure involves killing your cancerous tissue within the prostate by freezing it with liquid nitrogen.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is your best treatment for prostate cancer if it has spread or is in it's later stages of growth. It's effects are farther reaching than the other therapies due to it's ability to travel through your blood stream. Unfortunately it will kill both your cancer and normal cells in the process.
It is usually given as either a pill or injection, and generally as a last resort.
From: mens-hormonal-health.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Prostate surgery and Hormone therapy are the best treatment to prevent the prostate cancer. it is safest treatment.
ReplyDeleteStage 4 prostate cancer
I am 29 years old and have been diagnosed with breast cancer, ease of treatment and a similar story, except for my first acceptance as a rejection of herbal medicine. I was not part of the Perseid movement and did not really build relationships with any of them, I just believed in their operation. I say this because it was during the use of Dr. Itua herbal medicine that I now attest that herbal medicine is real, the phytotherapy Dr. Itua heal my breast cancer which I suffered for 2 years. Dr. Itua herbal medicine is made of natural herbs, with no side effects, and easy to drink. If you have the same breast cancer or any type of human illness, including HIV / AIDS, herpes,Ovarian Cancer,Pancreatics cancer,bladder cancer, prostate cancer, Glaucoma., Cataracts,Macular degeneration,Cardiovascular disease,Autism,Lung disease.Enlarged prostate,Osteoporosis.Alzheimer's disease,Brain cancer,Esophageal cancer,Gallbladder cancer,Gestational trophoblastic disease,Head and neck cancer,Intestinal cancer,Kidney cancer,Melanoma,Mesothelioma,Multiple myeloma,Neuroendocrine tumors,Hodgkin lymphoma,Oral cancer,Ovarian cancer,Sinus cancer,,Soft tissue sarcoma,Spinal cancer,Stomach cancer,Testicular cancer,Throat cancer,Thyroid Cancer,Uterine cancer,Vaginal cancer,Vulvar cancer.psoriasis ,Tach Diseases,Lupus,Endomertil Cancer, cerebrovascular diseases,
ReplyDeleteDementia.lung cancer,skin cancer,testicular Cancer,Lupus, , LEUKEMIA, VIRUSES, HEPATITIS, INFERTILITY WOMEN / MAN,CONTACT EMAIL / WHATSAPP: Or drituaherbalcenter@gmail.com/ +2348149277967