Prostate Cancer Treatments

You can expect to increase life expectancy after prostate cancer with treatments like radical prostatectomy, radiation therapy, hormone treatment, which are considered to some of the best and most effective treatment solutions in such cases. ‘Watchful waiting’ may also be one of the options but for obvious reasons is only advisable during the initial stages.

The treatment will depend on the growth rate of the tumor as well as the damage it has done. If the cancer is still inside the prostate gland, then radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy may be useful. But if the tumor has spread beyond the prostate gland, then the only way left to improve the life expectancy after prostate cancer is to treat it with hormone therapy.