Treatment can include medication, catheters, and surgery. Prostate can also cause erectile dysfunction and result in treatment or cancer-related issues like surgery, radiation, or hormonal therapy. Surgery is available to treat erectile dysfunction....
Proton Beam Radiation Therapy is a radiation therapy that uses protons to destroy cancer cells. This treatment can be slightly less damaging to the surrounding tissues than typical radiation therapy. Photodynamic Therapy involves the patient taking a drug that is activated by light. The drug collect...
Using fewer—but higher—doses of radiation to treat men with prostate cancer who had their prostates removed does not increase long-term side effects or lower their quality of life compared to conventional radiation treatment, a new, multi-institutional clinical trial shows. Findings from the phas...
Surgery—The most effective way to cure prostate cancer is to undergo aradical prostatectomy(removal of the prostate gland). This treatment can result in subsequent problems regardingimpotency(difficulty having an erection) orincontinence(problems with control of urination). Radiation therapy(treatment wit...
There are several advantages to using this procedure over surgery and radiation therapy. There is less blood loss, a shorter hospital stay and recovery time, and less pain than with conventional surgery. The long-term effectiveness of this procedure is unknown because it is a newer treatment. ...
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...
The CACA Guidelines for Holistic Integrative Management of Prostate Cancer includes epidemiology, screening and diagnosis, treatment for localized PC, diagnosis and treatment of PC recurrence after radical prostatectomy, management of metastatic PC, traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of PC,...
PDX 287R was established from a man with treatment-naïve primary prostate cancer who donated radical prostatectomy tissue. The patient subsequently had salvage radiation therapy and ADT, but died 3 years after diagnosis without any other systemic treatments (Fig. 4d). PDX 287R was established ...
Wootton LS, Kudchadker RJ, Beddar AS, et al. Effectiveness of a novel gas-release endorectal balloon in the removal of rectal gas for prostate proton radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2012;13:3945.Wootton et al., Effectiveness of a novel gas-release endorectal balloon in the ...
Internal radiation therapy (brachytherapy) is a local treatment, in which a seed with radiation source is placed at the tumor site (National Cancer Institute, 2019). Resurgence in 1980 associated with treatment plans that allow real-time, precise, and safe radioisotope placement (Zerbib et al.,...