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prostate cancer treatment?

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First question: Is whether treatment is necessary, depends on gleason score and psa. Treatment may not add value to you. Watchful waiting follows your psa #, rate of rise. If your gl >/= 7, psa > 10ng/ml, best option is radiotherapy, +/- anti-hormone. Get a few opinions. Do not act in haste.

Question 2

how expensive is prostate cancer treatment?

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Prostate cancer: Depending on where you live surgery can cost 15-50k with robotic surgery, radiation costs tens of thousands of dollars, chemo and other prostate cancer drugs are also very expensive

Question 3

what is the normal prostate cancer treatment?

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Radiation: Radiation either external beam vs seeds, surgery, anti-testosterone therapy with Lupron (leuprolide)  for extensive disese as well as chemotherapy.

Question 4

what is  a calypso prostate cancer treatment?

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Pin point radiation: This a specific system to guide radiation. A kind of radio guidance system is used to aim the radiation beam more accurately.

Question 5

could the nhs pay for prostate cancer treatment?

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Not sure I know: what NHS is, or if the data are true (33 year old, female).  But Prostate cancer only occurs in men, usually over 50. Detected by screening PSA or nodule of rectal exam.  If you have an insurance plan through ACA it will help, if you are uninsured, go to Charleston Memorial Hospital and ask.

Question 6

what is the best prostate cancer treatment and cure?

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Depends: Early prostate cancer can be successfully treated with either surgery or radiation plus or minus hormone therapy. Metastatic cancer is not curable but can do well for a while with hormones. Some cancers, strange as it may sound, grow so slow that do not need treatment at all. The challenge sometimes is to define what is the proper therapy for a particular situation. There is no &quot;best&quot; treatment.

Question 7

what to do about prostate cancer treatment and cure?

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Here are some ...: Largely, 2 approaches to prostate cancer exist, consisting of definitive Rx intending to "cure" &amp; palliative Rx intending to make patients more comfortable while alive. Despite intending to cure, real cure is far from perfection but with a price such as after radical surgery, radiation - external beam or radio seed implant, or cryotherapy. So, in reality, almost 1/3-1/2 of treated pts may relapse.

Question 8

how can i know if prostate cancer treatment has helped?

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Follow up: For prostate cancer post treatment is usually with serial psa's and imaging tests such as ultrasound or mri.  Also depends on your symptoms too.  Consult with your urologist or oncologist for details.

Question 9

did there been a breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment?

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Pca: New robotic surgical techniques could be argued as a breakthrough, but the big issue is psa. While not a great test it has reduced the # of men presenting with advanced stage disease. That is a breakthrough !

Question 10

how will i know if my prostate cancer treatment has helped already?

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PSA does not rise.: After prostate surgery, the psa should fall to undetectable levels. An undetectable psa is the measure of success, and a rise in psa signals local or distant recurrence. After radiation treatment, the psa falls to a lowpoint, or nadir, and should stay low. The same goes for metastatic cancer, where hormonal therapy should keep the psa from rising.

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