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Prostate Cancer Treatment Options

This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting them. Most prostate cancer grows slowly. You might get chemo if the disease has spread outside y...

Prostate Cancer Resources

American Cancer Society’s information on prostate cancer: https: // www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer.html. Cancer.Net’s information on prostat...

Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction, also called impotence, is the inability to develop or sustain an erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse. If oral erecti...

Diagnosing Prostate Cancer

Your doctor uses a long, thin instrument called a cystoscope to peer into your urethra and bladder, an organ above your prostate that holds urine. ...

Prostate Cancer: When Treatment Can Wait

If your doctor sees signs that your tumor has grown, they will talk to you about whether it’s time to stop active surveillance and start treatment....

Prostate Cancer: Radioactive Seed Implants

Radioactive seed implants are a form of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Another option is for the ultrasound and treatment plan to be done a...

Prostate Cancer Symptoms

There are no warning signs of early prostate cancer. The main signs of erectile dysfunction is not being able to achieve an erection, or to have it...

Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Blood Test

If your doctor thinks you might have prostate cancer based on either a PSA level or a rectal exam, a biopsy is the next step. If your PSA level is ...

Prostate Cancer: Radical Prostatectomy

Radical prostatectomy can cure prostate cancer in men whose cancer is limited to the prostate. A man undergoing radical prostatectomy by a surgeon ...

Prostate Cancer: Radiation Therapy

The radiation therapist will take a port film, also known as an X-ray, on the first day of treatment and about every week thereafter. However, port...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Options

Sometimes, a mix of both treatments works best. This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting them. Hormone treatment is often used if cancer ...

Prostate Cancer: Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is given to cause the cancer to shrink and, hopefully, to disappear. Because chemotherapy acts to kill rapidly-dividing cancer cells, ...