Cancer - Prostate Cancer

How is prostate cancer treated?

Choosing a treatment for prostate cancer is not easy. The primary choices include

surgery,

radiation,

hormone therapy,

which are used alone or in combination.

Promising experimental treatments include:

Neoadjuvant hormonal therapy, which shrinks the prostate tumor to increase success rates of surgery or radiation,

Immunotherapy, which boosts the body's own defenses against cancer.

Chemotherapy, using new drugs that might help men with advanced prostate cancer.