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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Surgical removal of the prostate, or prostatectomy, is a common treatment either for early-stage prostate cancer or for cancer that has failed to respond to radiation therapy. The most common type is radical retropubic prostatectomy , when the surgeon removes the prostate through an abdominal incision.

3. List of people with prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   French actor (died at the age of 91 after being diagnosed in 2018. He reportedly did not seek treatment for his prostate cancer) [134] James Michael Tyler: 1962 – 2021 American actor (diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in September 2018. His cancer had spread to bones and forced him into a wheelchair before his death.

4. Vancouver Prostate Centre - Wikipedia

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   Drs. Larry Goldenberg, Paul Rennie, Martin Gleave and Colleen Nelson founded the VPC (then called The Prostate Centre at VGH) in 1998. [6] In 1999, the Centre was aided with a $20 million donation by Vancouver businessman Jim Pattison (the largest private donation ever made to a health care facility in Canada), a VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation $45 million campaign for matching funds, and a ...

5. Travel Host Rick Steves Reveals Prostate Cancer ... - AOL

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   Travel writer and TV host Rick Steves has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, Steves, 69, shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) that he was preparing to have surgery at ...

6. Active surveillance of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] While prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related death in American men, it is conservatively estimated that approximately 100,000 men per year in the United States who would be eligible for conservative treatment through active surveillance, undergo unnecessary treatments ...

7. 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 ...