Prostate Cancer Medical Reference
- Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer: What to Expect
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is a treatment that stops your body from making male hormones like testosterone. This can cause changes in your body and mind -- some temporary, others lasting. But there are ways to prevent or treat these side effects on your own or with your doctor’s help.
- Why Prostate Cancer Spreads
Prostate cancer cells usually grow very slowly. But sometimes, they can spread to healthy tissues.
- A Healthy Sex Life After Prostate Cancer
Most men who are treated for prostate cancer will have some problems with sexual function, but it isn't always permanent. Find out what you can do about it.
- Can Sex, Masturbation Affect Prostate Cancer Risk?
There’s growing evidence that men who ejaculate more often could have a lower chance of having prostate cancer.
- What Is a Prostate Biopsy?
Prostate cancer kills thousands of men each year, though for most it often causes no problems or is easily treated. A prostate biopsy can be an important part of diagnosis and treatment.
- Palliative Care for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Find out how palliative care for advanced prostate cancer can help you manage your symptoms and give you the emotional support you need.
- What Is a HIFU Procedure?
Find out what happens during a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer and learn about the side effects.
- Breakthroughs in Finding, Treating Prostate Cancer
Doctors are finding ways to diagnose prostate cancer earlier and treat it more effectively.
- How Doctors Grade and Stage Prostate Cancer
Your prostate cancer’s grade and stage prostate will drive your treatment. How do doctors make the call?
- When Prostate Cancer Spreads
What happens when prostate cancer spreads to other parts of your body?
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
From surgery to chemotherapy, you have many choices to treat prostate cancer. It all depends on your health, age, and how serious your cancer is.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer
Advanced prostate cancer can't be cured, but you can ease symptoms. The goal of treatment is to make you feel better.
- Living Your Best With Prostate Cancer
Life goes on after prostate cancer. Here’s how you can prepare for changes and live your best.
- Prostate Cancer: After Your Diagnosis, What Comes Next?
Just diagnosed with prostate cancer? Here's a roadmap to guide you through the first part of your journey.
- Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer that has spread is still treatable. Options like radiation, hormone therapy, and surgery can help you live a longer, active life with the disease.
- Prostate Cancer: When Treatment Can Wait
When are active surveillance and watchful waiting good options for prostate cancer? Get answers.
- Treatment for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
Early-stage prostate cancer is very treatable with surgery, radiation, and other options.
- What Is a Biopsy and Gleason Score?
During a biopsy, your doctor takes a small piece of tissue for testing. Your Gleason score is a number based on the biopsy results.
- Myths and Facts About This Disease
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, but what do you know about it?
- Advanced Prostate Cancer: Treatments That Ease Symptoms
Here are some ways to improve your quality of life when your treatment for advanced prostate cancer isn't working, including pain relief drugs and other treatments.
- Common Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Your doctor might recommend hormone therapy, immunotherapy, radiation, or chemo.
- Changes in PSA During Advanced Prostate Cancer
If your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels go up, you might need different treatment.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer: Caring for Your Bones
WebMD explains how advanced prostate cancer patients can help treat bone pain and other problems related to cancer that has spread to the bones.
- What Is Metastatic Prostate Cancer?
WebMD explains what metastatic prostate cancer is and how it is found.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment: Side Effects
Treatments for prostate cancer can cause issues like incontinence, fatigue, and nausea. But there are ways to manage them.
- Is a Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Right for You?
In a clinical trial, you may try new drugs for prostate cancer. This could help your health – or that of other men in the future.
- Prostate Cancer Survival Rates: What They Mean
WebMD helps make sense of prostate cancer survival rates. Learn how chances increase or decrease based on risk factors and cancer stages.
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
There are many ways you and your doctor can treat your prostate cancer. Learn what they are and how to choose.
- Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment
WebMD explains cryotherapy, a treatment for recurring prostate cancer that involves freezing and killing cancer cells.
- Alternative Treatments for Prostate Cancer
WebMD examines alternative remedies for the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer, including the bark of the African plum tree, lycopene, pomegranate juice, and saw palmetto berry.
- Prostate Cancer: Radiation
Prostate Cancer: Radiation
- Prostate Cancer: Surgery
Prostate Cancer: Surgery
- Stages and Grades of Prostate Cancer
As prostate cancer progresses and spreads, doctors often use staging and grading systems to better treat the condition. Learn more about the stages and grades of prostate cancer at WebMD.
- Prostate Cancer: Make the Most of Doctor Appointments
WebMD helps you prepare for a doctor appointment with these tips.
- Prostate Cancer Pain: A Guide for You and Your Family
You have a right to pain relief. Learn more from WebMD about getting pain relief from your cancer symptoms, about what cancer pain medication can and cannot do, the side effects you may experience from pain medication, and rating your pain.
- Prostate Cancer Pain Control Chart
Using this chart from the National Cancer Institute will help you and your doctor see how well your pain medicine is working.
- WebMD's 10 Important Questions to Ask Your Doctor: Advanced Prostate Cancer
WebMD provides ten important questions to ask your doctor about advanced prostate cancer.
- What will be the future treatments for prostate cancer?
The key to curing prostate cancer ultimately will come from an understanding of the genetic basis of this disease. Read more.
- Saw Palmetto
WebMD takes a look at the herb saw palmetto, often promoted as a treatment for prostate problems.
- When to Seek Medical Care
See your health care provider if you have any of the symptoms listed here.
- What Causes Prostate Cancer?
WebMD offers a look at some of the known risk factors for prostate cancer.
- Prostate Cancer: Treatments by Stage
WebMD explains treatment options for each stage of prostate cancer.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer: Choosing Your Medical Team
Choosing the right medical team is critical when dealing with advanced prostate cancer. WebMD tells you which specialists should be on your team.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer and Caregiving
Caregiving is no easy task. Here are suggestions from WebMD for the caregivers of men with advanced prostate cancer.
- Predicting and Monitoring Advanced Prostate Cancer
Learn more from WebMD about current methods to predict and monitor aggressive prostate cancer.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer and Side Effects
WebMD explains the different side effects associated with advanced prostate cancer, either from treatments or the disease itself.
- Advanced Prostate Cancer: Frequently Asked Questions
WebMD answers frequently asked questions about advanced prostate cancer, offering a comprehensive look at the newest treatments.
- How Advanced Prostate Cancer Affects the Family
WebMD offers tips on how family members can help those with advanced prostate cancer.
- Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer
WebMD provides a comprehensive look at treatments for advanced prostate cancer, including risks and benefits.
- Prostate Cancer: Eating Right
Maintaining a healthy diet is key when you are undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Learn more from WebMD about what your body needs to boost your energy and combat treatment side effects.