Finding the Best Prostate Cancer Treatment Option

More recent treatments have emerged over the past decade, thanks to research conducted around the world. Most of them involve a surgical procedure to perform even when they do not require removal of tissue.

Surgical Options

all treatment options including surgery requiring an overnight stay in hospital for at least the night before the procedure. Some surgical options may require a hospital stay of one or several days, depending on the procedure and how quickly you can recover from it.

prostatectomy is a surgical procedure in which the entire prostate gland removed. It is often prescribed for patients with prostate cancer, confined. With prostate cancer, it also removes the seminal vesicles that carry sperm to the urethra, the neck of the bladder and lymph nodes.

As a result of which these organs were removed, impotence is a common side effect with mild to severe urinary incontinence. In addition, recovery can be slow times.

pelvic lymph node dissection is only the removal of lymph nodes attached to the prostate. The lymph nodes are wrapped around the urethra on both sides of the prostate. Muscle tissue in the lymph nodes you regulate the flow of urine through the urethra.

Removal of lymph nodes can lead to mild to moderate urinary incontinence in many patients.

Transurethral resection is a less invasive procedure. This was done to eliminate or relieve blockages in the uretru.Kirurški tool for cutting and cauterizing is inserted through the penis and in parts overgrown prostate is cut or burnt.

side effects of this procedure can cause mild to moderate urinary incontinence.

radiation therapy

Radiotherapy All treatments work on the principle that radioactive emissions to burn away cancer cells to remove them and prevent further growth.

External Beam Radiotherapy, or ER, uses high-energy radioactive particles directed at the pelvis to a device outside the body. When the particles hit the cancer cells, they are quickly heated and burnt. This procedure is performed for 5 consecutive days for approximately 5 to 7 consecutive weeks. No anesthesia is required and it is usually done in out-patient basis.

complications that can arise are as follows.

• is characterized by inflammation of the bladder or rectum or both.
  
• Impotence beginning 12 months after treatment.
  
• radiation burns to the sphincter or the bowel.

is similar, although slightly different therapies Proton Beam Therapy. While still employed by external beam, bean consisting of charged ions, not radioactivity. The principle of burning far more cancer cells remain the same as well. Proton beam therapy practitioners claim that a lower risk of side effects than traditional radiation, although clinical studies have yet to prove that it is final.

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

HIFU - is a newer treatment that is non-surgical and non-invasive. It is available in Europe for over ten years and has been approved by Health Canada in 2003. It is not currently available in the U.S.. With HIFU for prostate cancer, the patient goes through a 2-3 hour outpatient procedure in which focused ultrasound waves are used to targeting accuracy to kill cancerous tissues.