Your prostate cancer treatment depends on:
- Your age and health
- Stage and grade of the cancer
- Whether it is growing or slow-moving
- Your personal preferences
Some men may not need treatment right away and can safely wait and watch the cancer with regular checkups.
- Is this cancer likely to grow or spread?
- What is the main goal of treatment—cure, control, or symptom relief?
- What are my treatment options?
- What are the side effects?
- How will treatment affect my daily life or sexual health?
- Active surveillance: Regular checkups and tests, often used for slow-growing cancer.
- Surgery: Removes the prostate (prostatectomy), often used if the cancer hasn’t spread.
- Radiation therapy: Uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells.
- Hormone therapy: Lowers or blocks testosterone, which fuels prostate cancer.
- Chemotherapy: Used for advanced or aggressive cancers.
- Targeted therapy: Attacks specific cancer cell changes.
- Immunotherapy: Utilizes the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells.
- Clinical trials: Research studies testing new treatments.
Related Links:
Understanding Prostate Cancer Treatment Options and Care Goals
Overcoming Barriers | Advice for Accessing Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials
Tools to help you feel activated and connect with resources to overcome barriers to accessing care.
Topics:
- Prostate Cancer Screening and Early Detection
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Emerging Research
- Prostate Cancer Patient Support and Resources
Empowers prostate cancer patients and families by addressing factors like age, ethnicity, and insurance that impact outcomes. Gain confidence in your healthcare decisions, no matter where you live.
Topics:
- Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment and Care
- Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
Tackles common misconceptions and provides clear, actionable information about clinical trials, sharing tools and resources for patients with prostate cancer.
Topics:
- Understanding Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Terminology
- The Benefits of Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials
- Accessing Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials
- Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Safety
- Clinical Trials 201 Prostate Cancer Resources
Provides tools and actions for shared decision making and tips for navigating prostate cancer treatment decisions.
Topics:
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
- Understanding Prostate Cancer
- ENGAGE Prostate Cancer Resources
Shares the importance of latest treatment options, clinical trials and patient participation in clinical trials.
Topics:
- Understanding New and Developing Prostate Cancer Treatments
- Tools for Prostate Cancer Patient Self-Advocacy
- EVOLVE Prostate Cancer Resources
Will help you understand the importance of essential biomarker testing before key decisions are made in your care—including following a reoccurrence.
Topics:
- Understanding Prostate Cancer Testing
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions
- INSIST! Prostate Cancer Resources
Bridges the gap between patients who have participated in clinical trials and patients who have not yet participated for various reasons.
Topics:
- Self-Advocacy Prostate Cancer Patient Profiles
Provides actionable advice and downloadable materials to help you communicate clearly and effectively with your prostate cancer healthcare team.
Topics:
- Understanding Prostate Cancer
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Types & Treatment Decisions
- Managing Emotions and Accessing Prostate Cancer Support
- Advocating for the Best Prostate Cancer Care
- Planning Your Prostate Cancer Doctor’s Office Visit
Provides prostate cancer patients with key information to help them understand their role, empowering them to engage in their care and treatment decisions
Topics:
- Engaging in Your Prostate Cancer Care Decisions
- Participar en Sus Decisiones de Atención del Cáncer de Próstata
Bridges the expert and patient voices, enabling patients to feel comfortable asking precise questions of their healthcare team
Topics:
- Participating in Your Prostate Cancer Care
Improves prostate cancer patients’ and caregivers’ familiarity with remote access to healthcare, and increases quality of care regardless of geographical location.
Topics:
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Advances
- Remote Prostate Cancer Care
- Prostate Cancer Testing and Family Considerations
- Prostate Cancer Patient Support
Provides tools and resources for living with and beyond prostate cancer.
Topics:
- Collaborating On Your Prostate Cancer Care
- Understanding Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
- THRIVE Prostate Cancer Resources
