Prostate Cancer Treatment Options After Brachytherapy
If your cancer has returned and is confined to your prostate you have several treatment options including treatments to freeze the cancer cells with very cold liquid cryotherapy heat the cancer cells with high intensity focused ultrasound or surgery to remove the prostate salvage prostatectomy.
Prostate cancer treatment options after brachytherapy. Chemotherapy may be a treatment option for men with prostate cancer that has spread to remote body locations. My psa rose to 4 5 and had new biopsy completed a couple of weeks ago which showed risidual cancer with a gleason of 6. Your treatment options may be. The targeted drug olaparib lynparza is another option to treat men with a brca mutation whose advanced castrate resistant prostate cancer has grown after the hormone therapy drugs enzalutamide or abiraterone have been tried.
If the cancer comes back which is extremely rare in the prostate it s typically treated with hormone therapy or chemotherapy because if the cancer recurs it does so in the bone or lymph nodes. I am 53 years old and had brachytherapy in 2 2010. Jul 2012 jul 20 2012 10 53 am. Learn about the procedure side effects and risks.
Surgery to remove your prostate prostatectomy hormone treatment cryotherapy high frequency ultrasound hifu. I would be. Webmd describes how radioactive seed implants a form of radiation therapy called brachytherapy is used to treat prostate cancer. Needing surgery to remove the prostate after brachytherapy is rare he says.
I am now researching my options for treatment.