Prostate Cancer Treatment Options 2020
Doctors now have a variety of ways to treat prostate cancer including surgery radiation and drugs that slow the growth.
Prostate cancer treatment options 2020. Welcome to the 2020 moyad scholz mid year update. Your doctor might call it. Hormone therapy is used in men with advanced prostate cancer to shrink the cancer and slow the growth of tumors. Most surgeries are performed robotically using the da vinci surgical system.
For most men diagnosed with prostate cancer the cancer is found while it s still at an early stage it s small and has not spread beyond the prostate gland. This is an interactive online educational event for prostate cancer patients and caregivers. Prostate cancer cells need male sex hormones like testosterone to keep growing. This treatment keeps the cancer cells from getting them.
Prostate cancer s the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy among men in the u s and patients have up until now lacked treatment options if hormonal therapy stops working for them. 2020 moyad scholz mid year conference. There are two new treatment options found to be effective for advanced prostate cancer darolutamide and enzalutamide to adt there are two new treatment options found to be effective for advanced prostate cancer darolutamide and enzalutamide to adt get the free prostate cancer patient guide now with covid 19appendix. These men often have several treatment options to consider.
In men with early stage prostate cancer hormone therapy may be used to shrink tumors before radiation therapy which can increase the likelihood that radiation therapy will be successful. For this livestream we are welcoming experts in the prostate cancer field to give presentations on advanced cancer treatments and radiation therapy.