Prostate Cancer Treatment Options 2020
This is an interactive online educational event for prostate cancer patients and caregivers.
Prostate cancer treatment options 2020. Doctors now have a variety of ways to treat prostate cancer including surgery radiation and drugs that slow the growth. Not every man with prostate cancer needs to be treated right away. Hormone therapy is used in men with advanced prostate cancer to shrink the cancer and slow the growth of tumors. In men with early stage prostate cancer hormone therapy may be used to shrink tumors before radiation therapy which can increase the likelihood that radiation therapy will be successful.
Prostate cancer cells need male sex hormones like testosterone to keep growing. The outlook for men diagnosed with prostate cancer has never been brighter. Most surgeries are performed robotically using the da vinci surgical system. These men often have several treatment options to consider.
This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting them. Welcome to the 2020 moyad scholz mid year update. For this livestream we are welcoming experts in the prostate cancer field to give presentations on advanced cancer treatments and radiation therapy. For most men diagnosed with prostate cancer the cancer is found while it s still at an early stage it s small and has not spread beyond the prostate gland.
2020 moyad scholz mid year conference. Prostate cancer s the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy among men in the u s and patients have up until now lacked treatment options if hormonal therapy stops working for them.