How Is Advanced Prostate Cancer Explained to Newly Diagnosed Patients?
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How can advanced prostate cancer be explained to newly diagnosed patients and loved ones? Expert Dr. Yaw Nyame with the University of Washington shares key information that he explains at diagnosis and proactive advice for care partners.
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Transcript:
Lisa Hatfield:
Dr. Nyame, how do you explain advanced prostate cancer to your newly diagnosed patients and care partners?
Dr. Yaw Nyame:
A new cancer diagnosis, obviously, is always a big stressor for patients, and one of the things that I start with is, where is your cancer? And so when we talk about localized cancer, I always try to give the information for patients to understand that is a cancer that we think are solely in the prostate alone, and I think an advanced cancer is going to be anything that’s outside of the prostate, whether that’s in lymph nodes, close to the prostate in the bone or other organs further away from the prostate.
And I think the important thing that I try to really clarify when we’re talking about an advanced cancer diagnosis is that those are the cancers that are hard to cure, but we do have a lot of fantastic options for extending life and for preserving quality of life, and those really become the focus when we talk about most advanced cancers. And I think understanding how to build a team that will help you support those goals of care is really important, but if you don’t know really clearly, and at least to the best of your ability, what you want to see happen in your care, I think it’s hard to then advocate for those things.
