Modern Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
There have been tremendous advancements in the treatment of all cancers in the last twenty years, but for prostate cancer in particular, because it is rather a slow-growing one, particularly in the early stages.
This requires that it ought to be caught in its early stages. If it is diagnosed early, there is almost a 100% chance of survival for at least five years, but complete recovery is also common.
I hope that what I say below is accurate information, but it is my understanding of the research that I have done. I am not trained in medicine so if you are interested in any of the following treatments, please do your own research, do not rely on mine.
The typical likelihood of survival for five years of longer for the most common different forms of cancer are: pancreatic cancer - 4%; liver cancer - 7%; cancer of the esophagus - 14%; lung cancer - 15%; cancer of the ovaries - 53%; bladder cancer - 82%; breast cancer - 87%; testicular cancer - 96% and prostate cancer - 98%.
The actual figures above differ somewhat from country to country and from survey to survey. One of the main factors for the high success incidence with prostate cancer is screening. Men are being tested for prostate cancer more often these days, so it is being noticed earlier too.
Everybody has heard of chemotherapy because it used to be the standard treatment for all life-threatening cancers. Chemotherapy has numerous unpleasant side effects one of which was for the hair to fall out. Chemotherapy is only used in cases where nothing else is likely to work nowadays.
Chemotherapy is normally only used now if the cancer has spread much outside the place of origin - the prostate gland. Metastasis is the spread of cancer. If metastasis has occurred, the patient might have secondary growths in the bladder, the lungs, the spine and other bones. Chemotherapy is the fastest method of blanket bombing the whole body and fighting all the cancers at once.
Radical peritoneal prostatectomy is the complete removal of the prostate through the region between the penis and the anus. The removal of the prostate might become vital if hormonal and or other solutions have not worked and the cancer has not spread.
Cryotherapy involves the use of freezing to kill the growths locally. Cryotherapy is frequently used if the patient cannot undergo hormonal or radiation therapy. Some people would rather attempt cryotherapy than surgery as well.
Cryotherapy is undertaken by inserting probes through the skin and into the cancer. The tips of the probes then freeze the cancer. Cryotherapy may be used in conjunction with other types of therapy or on its own, but this is the case of all the therapies.
it is common for a patient to undergo several different forms of treatment at the same time or after one another, so that the cancer is being tackled from several directions at the same time. This strategy also involves that the body does not have to suffer too much of one form of treatment.
Cryotherapy is a quite new treatment and there are also contemporary external beam therapies. Proton beam radiation has been practiced for 50 years but neutron beams are a more recent variation.
This requires that it ought to be caught in its early stages. If it is diagnosed early, there is almost a 100% chance of survival for at least five years, but complete recovery is also common.
I hope that what I say below is accurate information, but it is my understanding of the research that I have done. I am not trained in medicine so if you are interested in any of the following treatments, please do your own research, do not rely on mine.
The typical likelihood of survival for five years of longer for the most common different forms of cancer are: pancreatic cancer - 4%; liver cancer - 7%; cancer of the esophagus - 14%; lung cancer - 15%; cancer of the ovaries - 53%; bladder cancer - 82%; breast cancer - 87%; testicular cancer - 96% and prostate cancer - 98%.
The actual figures above differ somewhat from country to country and from survey to survey. One of the main factors for the high success incidence with prostate cancer is screening. Men are being tested for prostate cancer more often these days, so it is being noticed earlier too.
Everybody has heard of chemotherapy because it used to be the standard treatment for all life-threatening cancers. Chemotherapy has numerous unpleasant side effects one of which was for the hair to fall out. Chemotherapy is only used in cases where nothing else is likely to work nowadays.
Chemotherapy is normally only used now if the cancer has spread much outside the place of origin - the prostate gland. Metastasis is the spread of cancer. If metastasis has occurred, the patient might have secondary growths in the bladder, the lungs, the spine and other bones. Chemotherapy is the fastest method of blanket bombing the whole body and fighting all the cancers at once.
Radical peritoneal prostatectomy is the complete removal of the prostate through the region between the penis and the anus. The removal of the prostate might become vital if hormonal and or other solutions have not worked and the cancer has not spread.
Cryotherapy involves the use of freezing to kill the growths locally. Cryotherapy is frequently used if the patient cannot undergo hormonal or radiation therapy. Some people would rather attempt cryotherapy than surgery as well.
Cryotherapy is undertaken by inserting probes through the skin and into the cancer. The tips of the probes then freeze the cancer. Cryotherapy may be used in conjunction with other types of therapy or on its own, but this is the case of all the therapies.
it is common for a patient to undergo several different forms of treatment at the same time or after one another, so that the cancer is being tackled from several directions at the same time. This strategy also involves that the body does not have to suffer too much of one form of treatment.
Cryotherapy is a quite new treatment and there are also contemporary external beam therapies. Proton beam radiation has been practiced for 50 years but neutron beams are a more recent variation.
About the Author:
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with prostate cancer and radiation treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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