There are a wide range of treatment options for prostate cancer depending on the stage and grade of the prostate cancer, the patient’s age and general health and the individual patient’s priorities.
These treatment options include:
- Watchful waiting
- Active surveillance
- Robotic prostatectomy
- Open Radical prostatectomy
- External Beam radiotherapy
- Low Dose Rate brachytherapy
- High Dose Rate brachytherapy
- Hormone therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Experimental treatments
The decision as to which treatment is most appropriate is a combined decision between the patient, their partner and the treating doctor and takes into account many factors such as:
- The patient’s age
- The patient’s general health
- The grade of the cancer
- The stage of the cancer
- The patient’s symptoms
- The patient’s priorities
