Laser therapy A high-energy laser destroys or removes overgrown prostate tissue. Laser therapy generally relieves symptoms right away and has a lower risk of side effects than does nonlaser surgery. Laser therapy might be used in men who shouldn't have other prostate procedures because they take ...
Side EffectsTherapy NewsView ProceduresShare Your Experience Brachytherapy Prostate Brachytherapy Minimally invasive radiation therapy implants low or high dose radiation (LDR or HDR) seeds in the prostate. Prostate Seed Implant Brachytherapy seeds are more effective for younger patients in good health with...
Image-guided radiation therapyPatient preferencesMarginal willingness to payLatent class analysisThere are several options for real-time prostate monitoring during radiation therapy including fiducial markers (FMs) and transperineal ultrasound (TPUS). However, the patient experience for these procedures is ...
After radiation therapy for prostate cancer.Your PSA will likely drop to its lowest point slowly over about 2 years after radiation. Your doctor will test your PSA levels every couple of months. Again, if your PSA levels go up over several tests, especially if it's fast, you may need fur...
EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy):These X-rays destroy tumor cells by damaging their DNA. There is a brief exposure to the radiation, typically lasting several minutes. Once the prostate cancer treatment is over, there is no radiation in the patient’s body. The treatment is completely no...
If it appears that the prostate cancer hasn’t spread, your surgeon may first offer you other options besides surgery. These can include radiation therapy, hormone therapy, or simply watching the prostate cancer over time, since many prostate cancers grow slowly. ...
(2) Patients who had not undergone any prostate cancer-related treatments such as surgery, hormonal therapy, or radiation therapy before the imaging examination. (3) Patients who underwent prostate biopsy within two months after the [18F]DCFPyL PET/CT examination and obtained precise pathological ...
2 Many cases, particularly nonlife-threatening early-stage cases, which remain low grade and local, would be overtreated if definitive therapies such as radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy were used. These treatments elevate the risk for erectile dysfunction or urinary incontinence,3 causing ...
In current practice, the 3 most common treatment options for men with screen-detected, localized prostate cancer are surgical removal of the prostate gland (radical prostatectomy), radiation therapy (external-beam radiation therapy, proton beam therapy, or brachytherapy), and active surveillance. The ...
Whole-gland ablation is a less-invasive option if you have small or less aggressive cancers and can't have surgery orradiation therapy, or you don’t want these treatments. Unlike surgery, ablation doesn't involve any cuts or stitches. And it can be done again if you still have cancer ce...