Prostate Cancer Health Center

If Prostate Cancer Comes Back

What Type of Follow-Up Treatments Are Recommended?

If prostate cancer recurs, follow-up treatment depends on what treatment you have already had, the extent of your cancer, the site of recurrence, other illnesses, your age, and other aspects of your medical situation.

One possible treatment might include hormone therapy. Researchers are working on new drugs to block the effects of male hormones, which can cause prostate cancer to grow, and drugs to prevent prostate cancer growth.

Radiation therapy or medicines may be given to relieve symptoms of bone pain. Chemotherapy or other treatments being medically researched are also options.

Now in clinical trials are several types of vaccines for boosting the body's immune system against prostate cancer cells. None is available yet.