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Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer: what to Expect

As you go through hormone deprivation therapy, you’ll have follow-up visits with your cancer doctor. Doctors don’t know how long hormone therapy wo...

Prostate Cancer: Laparoscopic Prostate Surgery

You may not be eligible if you have had previous open or laparoscopic pelvic surgery, even for another reason. Recent studies have shown no differe...

Alternative Treatments for Prostate Cancer

After non-melanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause ...

Myths and Facts About This Disease

In such cases, your doctor will likely suggest “active surveillance.” This means that they’ll check you often and order tests to see if your cancer...

Treatment & Care

Hormone treatment (also called androgen deprivation therapy or androgen suppression therapy) removes, blocks, or adds hormones to treat prostate ca...

Is a Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Right for You?

There's also a risk of side effects from the drug the clinical trial is testing. Some people in the trial may get the new medicine, but others will...

Prostate Cancer Specialists

Transrectal Prostate Ultrasound and Biopsy

Most doctors take six or more biopsies to test various areas of the prostate. Some doctors do the biopsy through the perineum, the small area of sk...

Cystoscopy or Bladder Scope Test

A cystoscopy is a test to check the health of your urethra and bladder. You may feel discomfort when the cystoscope goes into the urethra and bladd...

What is a Biopsy and Gleason Score?

When your doctor diagnoses you with high levels of PSA (prostate specific antigen), they'll recommend that you have a prostate biopsy to find out i...

Is Prostate Cancer Overtreated?

Doctors began routinely offering anti-hormone treatment to prostate cancer patients after a large study in the 1990s showed that giving a short cou...

Understanding Prostate Cancer -- The Basics

Darolutamide (Nubeqa) has been approved to treat those whose cancer has not spread to other parts of the body but has not responded to surgical tre...