There have been tremendous advancements in the treatment of all cancers in the last twenty years, but for prostate cancer in particular, because it is quite a slow-growing one, particularly in the early stages.
This requires that it ought to be caught in its early stages. If it is caught early, there is almost a 100% chance of survival for at least five years, but complete recovery is also common.
I hope that what I say below is reliable information, but it is my understanding of the research that I have done. I am not trained in medicine so if you are interested in any of the following therapies, please do your own research, do not trust mine.
The basic chance of survival for five years of longer for the most widespread different types of cancer are: pancreatic cancer – 4%; liver cancer – 7%; cancer of the esophagus – 14%; lung cancer – 15%; cancer of the ovaries – 53%; bladder cancer – 82%; breast cancer – 87%; testicular cancer – 96% and prostate cancer – 98%.
The actual figures above differ somewhat from country to country and from survey to survey. One of the main reasons for the high success rate with prostate cancer is screening. Men are being tested for prostate cancer more frequently nowadays, so it is being diagnosed earlier as well.
Everybody has heard of chemotherapy because it used to be the normal treatment for all life-threatening cancers. Chemotherapy has many unpleasant side effects one of which was for the hair to fall out. Chemotherapy is only used in cases where nothing else is expected to be effective these days.
Chemotherapy is normally only used now if the cancer has spread far outside the place of origin – the prostate gland. Metastasis is the spread of cancer. If metastasis has occurred, the patient may have secondary growths in the bladder, the lungs, the spine and other bones. Chemotherapy is the fastest method of blanket bombing the whole body and tackling all the cancers at once.
Radical peritoneal prostatectomy is the complete removal of the prostate through the area between the penis and the anus. The removal of the prostate may be vital if hormonal and or other treatments have not worked and the cancer has not spread.
Cryotherapy means the use of freezing to kill the growths locally. Cryotherapy is frequently used if the patient may not undergo hormonal or radiation therapy. Some people would rather attempt cryotherapy than surgery too.
Cryotherapy is undertaken by inserting probes through the skin and into the cancer. The ends of the probes then freeze the cancer. Cryotherapy might be used in conjunction with other forms of treatment or on its own, but this is the case of all the treatments.
it is common for a patient to undergo a number of different forms of treatment at the same time or after one another, so that the cancer is being attacked from a number of directions at the same time. This strategy also means that the body does not have to suffer too much of one kind of therapy.
Cryotherapy is a quite new treatment and there are also contemporary external beam therapies. Proton beam radiation has been practiced for 50 years but neutron beams are a more recent variation.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now concerned with prostate cancer and radiation treatment. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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