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You Have Several Treatment Options
As cancer research advances, more targeted treatments become available. This is good news for anyone with a prostate cancer diagnosis, since it allows you to find a treatment that’s more suited to your unique case and your lifestyle.
Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the first lines of attack for most cancers, and while they are also viable options for prostate cancer, there are other therapies that could spare you some expense and discomfort. Removing the prostate gland will often eliminate the threat entirely, but hormone therapy to stop the production of testosterone can work by cutting off the supply to the tumor.
Brachytherapy (radiation inserted directly into the affected tissue) and cryosurgery (freezing the cancer cells to kill them) are other options you can discuss with your doctor.
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