Management
Contents of This Section
- In the beginning …
- Staging and grading
- Treatment: the absolute basics
- First-line treatments for early stage (localized) disease
- What! You mean I’m going to have to CHOOSE?
- Comparative data on the various options for treatment of early stage (localized) prostate cancer
- Active surveillance and watchful waiting
- Established surgical treatments
- Established radiotherapeutic treatments
- External beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
- Radioactive seed implantation (brachytherapy)
- Less well established treatments
- Cryotherapy
- High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
- Focal therapy: a future possibility?
- Side effects and complications of first-line therapy: an overview
- Erectile dysfunction (risk, natural history, and management)
- Urinary incontinence
- Painful defecation
- When first-line treatment fails for early stage disease
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Active surveillance (watchful waiting)
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The role of salvage surgery
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The role of radiation therapy
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The role of hormone therapy
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Investigational therapies
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- First-line treatment for non-localized disease
- Active surveillance/watchful waiting
- The role of surgery (surgical debulking)
- External beam radiotherapy
- Hormonal therapies
- Investigational therapies
- Treatment for advanced (non-metastatic) disease
- Hormonal therapies
- Investigational therapies
- The treatment of metastatic disease (and video presentation)
- Active surveillance (watchful waiting)
- Hormonal therapies
- Investigational therapies
- The treatment of hormone-refractory disease
- Anti-androgen withdrawal
- Chemotherapy
- Palliative treatment in late-stage disease
- Management of severe bone pain
- Management of fractures and other complications
- Exercise, wellness, and response to prostate cancer treatment
- Monitoring treatment: an overview
- The role of PSA tests
- The role of bone scans
- The roles of other tests
- Alternative and complementary medicines
- Side effects and complications of hormonal therapies
- Gynecomastia (swelling and tenderness of the breast)
- Bone loss
- Hot flashes
- Mood changes and depression
- Important articles on the management of prostate cancer
Summary Overview
The management of prostate cancer is complicated. We do not have all of the answers to all the questions that need answers.
In this section of The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink, over the next few months, you will find information about:
- Treatment for early stage disease (i.e., prostate cancer that is, or at least seems to be, confined to the prostate)
- Treatment for non-localized disease (i.e., prostate cancer that has, or at least seems to have, escaped from the prostate itself into the nearby tissues)
- Treatment for advanced disease (including non-metastatic advanced disease, metastatic disease, and hormone-refractory disease)
- Management of prostate cancer-related complications (such as impotence and the side effects of hormone therapy)
We will also update and expand on this range of topics as we go.
You may also find it useful to surf other areas of this site for things like “Finding the cancer specialist who is right for YOU” and “How to pick a prostate cancer surgeon.” Last but by no means least, you may be interested in an article called ‘Views from the “other side”,’ written by two leading specialists in the management of prostate cancer, in which they write very personally about their own experience of diagnosis and treatment for this disease.
