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2. What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer Treatments - AOL

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   ONCE PROSTATE CANCER is diagnosed, doctors determine what stage the cancer is in and how aggressive it is—and then recommend the most appropriate treatment, says Sunil Kakadia, M.D., a medical ...

3. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   If the cancer has spread beyond the prostate, treatment options change significantly, so most doctors who treat prostate cancer use a variety of nomograms to predict the probability of spread. Treatment by watchful waiting/active surveillance, HIFU, external-beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy, cryosurgery, and surgery are, in general ...

4. Prostate brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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   Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy, or radiation treatment, offered to certain cancer patients. There are two types of brachytherapy – high dose-rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR). LDR brachytherapy is the one most commonly used to treat prostate cancer. It may be referred to as 'seed implantation' or it may be called 'pinhole surgery'. [1]

5. What to Know About Complementary Therapies for Prostate Cancer

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   For people battling prostate cancer, the fight can feel like a contest between the disease and the doctors. Their body is the battlefield, but they may nonetheless feel marginalized—more ...

6. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...

7. Doctors Explain What Prostate Cancer Screenings Involve

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   Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death among men, according to the American Cancer Society. This year, the organization projects that about 300,000 new cases will be ...