Prostate Cancer Treatments
Prostate Cancer Treatments
With the innovation more and more treatments become available and make very difficult for a man with a newly diagnosed prostate cancer to find his way in this complicated situation where consensus can be missing.
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They are numerous treatments available in the area of prostate cancer going from a simple surveillance to heavy multidisciplinary strategies combining physical (surgery, radiotherapies) and systemic therapies (hormonotherapies, chemotherapies, immunotherapies)
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Overtreatment stays the main risk when a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer mainly when your cancer is not or slowly growing with a very reduced risk of spreading during your remaining lifetime.
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The most important step in the management of your disease is not the treatment which can be performed in a lot of good centers but rather the quality of the diagnosis. Indeed if the diagnosis is not optimal and performed with the best technology available the inaccuracy of the final diagnostic will undoubtly lead to an inaccuracy in the choice of the treatment. The diffrence between expert centers and centers which are less expert does not rely on the quality of the treatment but in the accuracy of the diagnostic.
