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If you plan to get surgery for yourprostate cancer, there are a few things you can do to get ready ahead of time. As with any surgery, your well-being and safety are important. If youprepare for surgery, you’ll be more likely to have a successful outcome. What Should You Do Before...
Drugs work as well as prostate cancer surgery (orchiectomy -- removal of the testicles) to reduce the level of hormones in the body. Most men opt for drug therapy rather than surgery. The three types of hormone-related drugs approved to treat advanced prostate cancer include luteinizing hormone...
A’breakthrough’ in prostate cancer - six years late! Almost six years after CANCERactive told you the benefits ofHiFU High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound- as an alternative to surgery in cancers confined within the prostate, the therapy is making front page headlines in British Papers. Typically,...
Several options are available to you for the treatment of prostate cancer. We carefully go over each of the choices with you and your loved ones. There are different approaches to prostate surgery: open, laparoscopic, and da Vinci Prostatectomy, as well as several non-surgical therapies: radiati...
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Prostate cancer surgery may offer "negligible" benefits to many men with early-stage, a 20-year U.S. study said Wednesday. In such men, who account for most cases of newly diagnosed prostate cancer, surgery did not prolong life and often caused serious com...
Surgery may be needed, depending on the stage of the cancer. Part or all of your prostate may be removed. You may also need to have some lymph nodes taken out. This may help keep the cancer from spreading to other parts of your body. Your healthcare provider may recommend a combination...
A total of 1643 men with localised prostate cancer were randomised between active monitoring, radical prostatectomy, and external-beam radiotherapy. Comparisons between treatments showed no differences between surgery and radiotherapy in terms of cancer-specific survival and overall survival. Moreover, the...
Prostate cancer is comprised nearly always of adenocarcinomacells -- cells that arise from glandular tissue. Cancer cells are named according to the organ in which they originate no matter where in the body we find such cells. Thus, if prostate cancer cells spread in the body to the bones, ...
Prostate cancer is comprised nearly always of adenocarcinomacells -- cells that arise from glandular tissue. Cancer cells are named according to the organ in which they originate no matter where in the body we find such cells. Thus, if prostate cancer cells spread in the body to the bones, ...