4 Care and Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Care and Treatment of Prostate Cancer

There are 4 Care and Treatment for Prostate Cancer sufferers Ie;

1.Therapy Hormones 

If the cancer has spread from the prostate gland at the time it has been detected, it will usually be treated with hormone therapy.Prostate cancer needs the male hormone testosterone to grow and spread. Therefore, if you pull out the cancer of testosterone, starvation cancer. Hormone therapy does just that, and although it will not completely remove the cancer, can be put on hold for a few years and can relieve some symptoms including bone pain and urinary problems.Hormone therapy can also be used in men whose cancer has spread a bit, because these treatments can kill some cancer and will shrink the remaining gland, making it easier to then treated with either surgery or radiotherapy.

2. Operation
For localized cancers (they are contained) it is possible to remove the entire gland in an operation called radical prostatectomy. Here, the surgeon makes an incision in the lower abdomen and removing the prostate gland as a whole and then re-connect the urethra into your bladder. This is a complex operation and requires a highly skilled surgeon to avoid cutting through the bundle of nerves that surrounds the prostate gland. Because of the possibility of nerve damage, impotence is a common problem, and about 70 percent of men will not be able to achieve natural erections after surgery.There is also a slight risk of incontinence, with about 40 percent of men experiencing minor dribbling and approximately 2 percent of men who need long-term use of incontinence pads. However, surgery is one of the best tested and is considered highly effective treatment, provided that the cancer is contained within the prostate gland.

3. Radiotherapy
This technique can also be used to treat cancer is contained. This can be done in several ways. In external beam radiotherapy, radioactive beams aimed at the prostate from outside the body. However, the beam radiotherapy can not distinguish between normal and cancer cells, so the beam must be focused very carefully on the prostate gland itself.A new method, known as 3D conformal radiotherapy, is now used in many hospitals. This technique involves eating co-ordinates of the prostate (size, shape, position) to a computer, which then form a beam in accordance prostate to limit damage to normal tissues.There are fewer side effects with this treatment, with about 40 percent of men become impotent and around 2 percent of men experience incontinence. Because 3D conformal radiotherapy is only available for a few years, we do not believe its effectiveness, but studies must be completed immediately to provide a more complete understanding.

4. Brachytherapy
It is a type radiotherapy involves placing radioactive seeds inside the prostate gland itself, thus providing direct radiation to the cancer.In this procedure, doctors insert a needle into the prostate gland under anesthesia and then passes the seeds through the needles into the gland, where they remain forever. The seeds eventually lose their radioactivity and become ineffective. Because there is no need for surgery, the procedure can generally be done within a day or two, and you should be able to return to normal life soon.

see also, 
- Know what it is prostate cancer
- Symptoms and signs of prostate cancer
- Handling and treatment of prostate cancer 
- Prevent Prostate Cancer
- The cause of prostate cancer

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