| Being diagnosed with prostate cancer for the first | | | | employ is hormone therapy. This prostate cancer |
| time will more than likely be traumatic for you and | | | | treatment will remove, block or add hormones. When |
| your loved ones, being diagnosed with recurrent | | | | you are suffering with recurrent prostate cancer, |
| prostate cancer can be devastating. Your doctor will | | | | hormone therapy may aid in preventing the growth |
| prescribe a prostate cancer treatment plan that is | | | | of the cancer. It is also used as a cancer treatment |
| designed to help you beat this disease. For those | | | | for breast cancer as well. |
| who have recurrent prostate cancer, there are many | | | | Prostatectomy |
| prostate cancer treatment that your physician may | | | | If you are not responding to conventional methods |
| advise you to try. | | | | of prostate cancer treatment, your doctor may |
| Radiation Therapy | | | | suggest that you have a prostatectomy. This is an |
| One prostate cancer treatment option is radiation | | | | operation that will remove some or all of the |
| therapy. This prostate cancer treatment includes the | | | | prostate. When you have a radical or total |
| use of radiation of high energy from protons, | | | | prostatectomy, the surgical team will remove the |
| neutrons, gamma rays and x-rays, as well as other | | | | entire prostate gland as well as surrounding tissue. |
| sources to kill the cancerous cells and to shrink any | | | | Chemotherapy |
| existing tumors. There are two ways that radiation | | | | Chemotherapy is a common prostate cancer |
| therapy can be administered as prostate cancer | | | | treatment as well as a treatment for a host of other |
| treatment. The first is from a machine that is located | | | | types of cancer. Chemotherapy can come with a lot |
| outside your body called external beam radiation | | | | of side effects and if this is the course of prostate |
| therapy, or you may have material that is radioactive | | | | cancer treatment your doctor recommends, you will |
| that is placed in your body near where the cancer is | | | | learn about the possible side effects you may suffer |
| located. This is referred to as internal radiation | | | | with this treatment option. There may be other |
| therapy. | | | | prostate cancer treatment other then those |
| Hormone Therapy | | | | mentioned that your doctor will discuss at length with |
| Another prostate cancer treatment your doctor may | | | | you. |