Patient/caregiver was instructed upon management measures for prostate cancer as follows:
Management measures for prostate cancer essentially depend upon various factors, such as, the type of cancer, how rapid the cancer is growing, extent of involvement, sites of cancer spread, individual’s age, other coexisting health conditions, and many others. Management measures include
Chemotherapy:
- Chemotherapy medications could be employed for actively growing cancers that are spread far beyond prostate and involve many distal vital organs.
- Chemotherapy could also be employed for prostate cancers that are poorly responsive to other treatment modalities.
Radical prostatectomy:
- Prostate cancers that are actively growing could be treated by radical prostatectomy. This method is usually employed for cancers that are actively growing, but the cancer is not spread beyond prostate.
- This method involves surgical removal of the entire prostate tissue along with the involved lymph nodes.
Ablation treatment:
- Prostate cancers that are actively growing could be treated by ablation, involving exposure of cancerous prostate tissue to cold gas or high energy ultrasound, which help to kill the cancer.
- Ablation could also be performed through insertion of ablation needles into the prostate gland through the perineum (skin between the anus and scrotum in males) and the treatment is delivered through the needles.
- This method is usually employed for cancers that are actively growing, but the cancer is not spread beyond prostate.
