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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy – including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external-beam radiation therapy, proton therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, or some combination. Treatments also extend to survivorship ...

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

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   It might also be combined with chemotherapy or radiation, Dr. Barbieri says. Hormone therapy may bring side effects, like reduced libido, ... New Advancements in Prostate Cancer Treatment.

4. Metronomic therapy - Wikipedia

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   This is undesirable especially when most patients with prostate cancer are old-aged. The response to newer medications, such as enzalutamide and abiraterone , is also variable. [ 1 ] However, recent studies have found out that metronomic chemotherapy using cyclophosphamide was more beneficial with fewer side effects as the therapy uses smaller ...

5. Chemotherapy regimen - Wikipedia

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   A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy. The majority of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy are cytostatic, many via ...

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. Thames Valley Health Innovation and Education Cluster

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   Thames Valley HIEC is the mechanism by which ideas that promote the welfare of the patient make their way into working practice as soon as possible. Thames valley is 15.1% short of cancer chemotherapy nurses and is 7% short of specialist cancer nurses. [1]