Treatment Of Prostate Cancer. For patients with prostate cancer, may be confusing in selecting the best treatment procedure that can be done. Each treatment has done the risk and also the advantages of each. Prostate cancer treatment depends on several factors:
- Stage of cancer
- The size of the cancer
- How broad a spread of cancer that has occurred
- And the patient's health condition
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For sufferers of prostate cancer at an early stage, they could choose to wait and keep an eye on the development of cancer. There are some cases of prostate cancer that requires no treatment at all and this needs to be taken into consideration because there are side effects of the treatment are classified as significant. In choosing to keep an eye on prostate cancer, then during the period of supervision, additional information can be collected to help determine the appropriate treatment.
The supervision of these require you to undergo a prostate PSA test and biopsy procedures also regularly. This is done to ensure as early as possible whether there is any growth of cancer cells. A series of procedures was carried out to determine the appropriate treatment with the stages of cancer suffered, especially when prostate cancer has already spread out from the prostate gland.
Here are a few ways of handling of prostate cancer are recommended:
Prostate Cancer Surgery
The following are some ways and also the procedures that can be done to cope with prostate cancer.
TURP or trans-urethral resectionTURP is a surgical procedure in the cut part of the prostate gland. TURP is performed by way of a general anaesthetic or spinal anaesthetic, so you do not feel pain during the surgery takes place. The goal of surgery is to relieve or eliminate the symptoms of disturbed urination due to prostate cancer.
The surgeon will insert an iron wire with circular section at its end into the urethratowards the prostate. Electricity used to heat parts of the circular that serves for cutting of prostate cancer.
Radical prostatectomyRadical Prostatectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the prostate gland and surrounding tissue. Radical prostatectomy can cure in prostate cancer if the cancer has not spread out of the prostate gland. But there is a small possibility that not all cancer cells could be raised. There is the possibility of cancer cells will back post-operative.Some of the potential complications of radical prostatectomy procedure is:
- Urinary incontinence, that inability to control urination.
- Erectile dysfunction. More commonly known as impotence. The inability to achieveand maintain an erection.
- Can not ejaculate so could not have a child through intercourse.
RadiotherapyRadiotherapy uses radiation energy to kill cancer cells in cases where the cancer has not spread out of the prostate. Radiotherapy of post-operative could also be used to kill cancer cells that are left. In addition, radiotherapy is also performed to relieve symptoms or pain and slow the rate of progression of the cancer in cases of cancer which had already advanced.Patients need not undergo hospitalization to undergo radiotherapy procedures. The following are some of the side effects of radiotherapy on prostate cancer:
- Pubic hair loss
- Feeling fatigue
- Feel uncomfortable around the anus and rectum
- Inflammation of the bladder
- Inability to erections
- Inkontinensi urine
- Problems with bowel movements, such as diarrhea and bleeding
Hormone Therapy
Hormone therapy usually combined with radiotherapy procedures. Hormone therapy before radiotherapy aims to improve treatment success. While hormone therapy given after radiotherapy is intended to reduce the possibility of the return of the cancer cells.
In addition to the above function, hormone therapy could also be used to slow the progression of prostate cancer end stages and relieving symptoms or pain that comes up.
Side effects of hormone therapy on prostate cancer are:
- Loss of sexual desire
- Erectile dysfunction
- Weight gain
- Swelling of the chest
- Hot flush
- Sweating
Steroid tablets can be used if hormone therapy is no longer work because of cancer suppressive hormone resistant. Steroids can be used to reduce tumors and inhibit tumor growth.
Treat Cancer Of Late Stage
When prostate cancer has already entered the final stage, then this condition can no longer be healed. The treatment is done only to slow development, extend, and relieving symptoms.
To cope with the final stages of prostate cancer, treatment can be done is radiotherapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy.
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