If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer you should know the different treatment options. The choice of treatment depends on the type of cancer you have and its extension, and especially of their personal priorities after considering the benefits and drawbacks, their age and health status.
Treatment options for prostate cancer are more recent:
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It consists of observing the patient without providing any treatment to appear or be accentuated symptoms. It is indicated in elderly people with other medical problems and early stage prostate cancer
Surgery
Pelvic lymphadenectomy: It consists in removing the lymph nodes in the pelvis, which are microscopically examined immediately. If the nodes contain cancer, the prostate is not removed and another treatment is recommended.
Radical prostatectomy: prostate is removed along with neighbors and lymphatic tissues. Produces impotence and urinary and fecal incontinence
Transurethral prostatectomy: It removes some of the prostate tissue through the urethra through a cystoscope. Used to relieve the obstruction especially in elderly people who could not tolerate radical surgery or its aftermath
Radiotherapy
It consists of irradiation to kill cancer cells. External irradiation is done by a machine that radiates the body and internal radiation (brachytherapy) with seeds, radioactive wires or catheters. Radiation therapy often produces urinary problems.
Hormonal
It consists in blocking hormone action to prevent tumor growth. This therapy usually produces hot flashes, impaired sexual function, loss of sexual desire, impotence and bone changes. Hormone treatments include:
Releasing factor antagonists of luteinizing hormone that prevent testosterone production by the testis (luproide acetate, and buserelin goselerin)
Antiandrogens such as flutamide and bicalutamide, which counteract the testosterone
Drugs that inhibit adrenal androgens occur as ketoconazole and aminoglutamida
Orchiectomy, or removal of the testicles that are the main source of testosterone production
Estrogen, which promotes female sexual characteristics preventing the testicles from producing testosterone. They are little used because of its serious adverse effects
Cryosurgery
It Destroy the cancerous tissue with very low temperatures
Chemotherapy
Use medications to kill or stop the growth of malignant cells. It is administered orally or injected
Immunotherapy or Biological Therapy
It consists of active and passive stimulation of the immune system that is responsible for preventing the growth of cancer cells
High intensity focused ultrasound
It is the application of high-intensity ultrasound with a probe intrarectal to destroy cancer cells.