| If you are looking for a prostate cancer | | | | Options to attack this cancer include surgery, |
| treatment, what are your options? Treatments | | | | radiation therapy, as well as other treatments |
| vary significantly from case to case. Because | | | | such as hormonal therapy. Surgery is often a |
| prostate cancer is usually very slow growing, one | | | | good option is the cancer is contained within the |
| often-prescribed treatment is no treatment at all. | | | | prostate gland, as is radiation therapy. |
| This is called "watchful waiting", in which action is | | | | Side effects may include erectile dysfunction, |
| only taken if the cancer starts spreading. If a man | | | | nerve damage, or involuntary urine leakage. The |
| is in his 70s and his cancer is contained within the | | | | same side effects are present in radiation |
| prostate gland, the best treatment is usually | | | | therapy. One treatment option, which has been |
| watchful waiting because the risks involved with | | | | getting some media attention, is High Intensity |
| treating it outweigh the fact that the man is | | | | Focused Ultrasound. Supposedly it works the |
| probably going to die from something completely | | | | same as radiation therapy without the harmful |
| unrelated to the prostate cancer. | | | | side effects. |
| If, however, a man is diagnosed with prostate | | | | If this type of cancer is in its latter stages |
| cancer in his 40s or 50s, the cancer needs to be | | | | (meaning it has spread from the prostate gland) |
| attacked because there is a good chance that, in | | | | or if the cancer is reoccurring, more treatment |
| this man's lifetime, the cancer will start spreading. | | | | options are considered. |